You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
JACK LONDONYou stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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