One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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 would rather be ashes than dust.
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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 scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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