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Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!
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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.
Jack London
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
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.
Jack London
He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.
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My mistake was in ever opening the books.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.
Jack London
Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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more you drink more you want
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
Jack London
I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
Jack London
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
Jack London
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
