Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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