You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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