Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
More Jack London Quotes
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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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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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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