Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONA good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
More Jack London Quotes
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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