Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONAge is never so old as youth would measure it.
More Jack London Quotes
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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