Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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You 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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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