I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONThere 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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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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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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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