Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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