I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONI 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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