I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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