Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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