Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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 was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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