Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
More Jack London Quotes
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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