Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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