Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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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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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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