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.
JACK LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
More Jack London Quotes
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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