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.
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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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