You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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