You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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