Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
More Jack London Quotes
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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His 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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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