Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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