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 LONDONI’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
More Jack London Quotes
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure 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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