Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONI 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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 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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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