So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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