I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
More Jack London Quotes
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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