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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

Jack London

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.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON

Dedication Inspirational Wait Yourself
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Description Feeling Language Myself Weakness Word
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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Bone Charity Compassionate Difference Dog Generosity Hungry Yourself
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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Brilliance Burn Choice Fire Myself Spark
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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Easy Existence Life Live Place
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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Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Beautiful Myself Purpose Writing
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Alone Book Company Friendship Himself Reading
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Concentration Focus Story Writing
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Possession Pursuit Unity
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Existence Function Live Man One Liner
It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Alone Better Choice Support Yourself
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Himself Lingering Sleep Wild Wolf
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

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