I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDONIt is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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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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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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