A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONYou 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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 Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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