Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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 ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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