Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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.
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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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 write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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He 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.
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