Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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