Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
More Jack London Quotes
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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