Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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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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