Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONThe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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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 would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Affluence means influence.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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