You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
From Jack London
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.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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.
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 as the dog.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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