Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
More Jack London Quotes
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDON