Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my 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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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 good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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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.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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