She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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