A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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He 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.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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