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.
JACK LONDONShe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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