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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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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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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.
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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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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.
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Pray do not interrupt me, he wrote. I am smiling.
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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 a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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