It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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