You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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