The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
More Jack London Quotes
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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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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