A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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