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 LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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