Mirthless Quotes by Jack London

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.…
• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry…
• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
• If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…
• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it…
• A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the…

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