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.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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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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