Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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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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