Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
More Jack London Quotes
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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