Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDONDon’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
More Jack London Quotes
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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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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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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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