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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDON

Design Man Myself Past Skin
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.
JACK LONDON

Achievement Appearance Inspirational Invitation Light Yourself
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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Choice Eat Kill Law Time
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDON

Eat Economics Food Man Politics System Word
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON

End Play Yourself
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.
JACK LONDON

Alive Beyond Forget Life Live Oneself Rise
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.
JACK LONDON

Desperate Happiness Hard Work Poor Remember See Success Yourself
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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Appearance Experience Fear Himself Inheritance Nature Strength Trust Unknown
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Behavior Character Cruelty Intelligence Man Stupidity
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Law Obedience Oppression Strong Weakness
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Art Deep Existence Love Reason
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Existence Function Live Man One Liner
Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Appearance Deep Devil Monster One Liner
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Nature Oneself Philosophy Violence
It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Alone Better Choice Support Yourself
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.
JACK LONDON

Clothes Fight King Power Ride Sea Skill Wings Yourself
Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDON

Capture Death Goodness Possession Run
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDON

Class God Himself Mom
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Card Deep Goodness Hands Hard Time Hold Inspirational Life Perspective Play Poor
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.
JACK LONDON

Believe Death Freedom Myself
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON

Dedication Inspirational Wait Yourself
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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Description Feeling Hate Language Myself Strong Weakness Word
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Possession Pursuit Unity
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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Goodness Himself Life Live Survive
But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Change Judgement Kind Man Myself Taste
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDON

Brilliance Burn Choice Fire Myself Spark
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.
JACK LONDON

Alone Himself Kill Live Prey Strength Strong Survive Virtue

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