I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONAffluence means influence.
More Jack London Quotes
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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