Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONLife, 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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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