Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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