The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDONAge is never so old as youth would measure it.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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