Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDONWhere others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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