One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
More Jack London Quotes
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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