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.
JACK LONDONThe Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
More Jack London Quotes
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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His 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.
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Affluence means influence.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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