I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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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 good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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Strength is an empty shell.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Affluence means influence.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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