I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
More Jack London Quotes
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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.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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 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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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 word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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