The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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