Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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 proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I’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.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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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