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.
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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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