Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
More Jack London Quotes
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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