I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
More Jack London Quotes
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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