Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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 would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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