I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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 function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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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 Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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