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.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
More Jack London Quotes
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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Affluence means influence.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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