Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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