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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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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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