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.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
More Jack London Quotes
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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