The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDONLife, 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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 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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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 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.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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 do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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