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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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Pray do not interrupt me, he wrote. I am smiling.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.
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