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Jack London Quotes

American - Novelist | January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Motivational Wait You Go Inspiration

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Life Good Cards Sometimes Hand Poor

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Dog Charity You Hungry Bone Just

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Live Time Man Trying Days Exist

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.

Life Rise Alive Living Beyond Most

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Me Glow Dust Permanent Planet Ashes

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Life Song Short Sing Would Rather

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Nature Without Cannot Having Itself

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Beauty Purpose Me Book Now Three

Affluence means influence.

Influence Means Affluence

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Space Me Glow Permanent Planet Atom

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Life Value You Know Do You Know

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