A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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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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