Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
More Jack London Quotes
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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