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 LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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