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.
JACK LONDONHe was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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 greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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