It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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