Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONA good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Affluence means influence.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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