Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONHe 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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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