Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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I 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.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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