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 LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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