Strength is an empty shell.
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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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 be ashes than dust.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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