So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
More Jack London Quotes
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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