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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.
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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
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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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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
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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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His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
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For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.
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