Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering 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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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