Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONThe Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
More Jack London Quotes
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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