I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONLife is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
More Jack London Quotes
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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