Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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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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