Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
JACK LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
More Jack London Quotes
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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