So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONTo be able to forget means sanity.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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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 scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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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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