Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
More Jack London Quotes
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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