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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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