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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.
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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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The Stone the Builders Rejected.
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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
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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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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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If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.
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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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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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