One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
More Jack London Quotes
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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