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 LONDONGo 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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