But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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Affluence means influence.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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