One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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