To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDONAnd 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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.
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