The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
More Jack London Quotes
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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