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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?
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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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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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. . . 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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly
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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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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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