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.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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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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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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