I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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