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Pray do not interrupt me, he wrote. I am smiling.

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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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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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Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.
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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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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 be ashes than dust.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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.
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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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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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