Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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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 Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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