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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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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
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Pray do not interrupt me, he wrote. I am smiling.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
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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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I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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