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.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
More Jack London Quotes
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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.
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