But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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