No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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