In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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 most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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