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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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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