Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONA good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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