And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
More Jack London Quotes
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering 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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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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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