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.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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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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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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