There’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.
JACK LONDONToo much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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