Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONBut I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
More Jack London Quotes
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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