I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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