Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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 Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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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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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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 was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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