It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
More Jack London Quotes
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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