Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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