Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Affluence means influence.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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