The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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 proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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