Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
JACK LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Affluence means influence.
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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.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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