But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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