The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONThe Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONDon’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.
JACK LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONA good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONLife is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDONAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONNo; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONDon’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONThere’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.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONHe was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDON