Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONThere’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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Affluence means influence.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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No; 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.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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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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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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