I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
More Jack London Quotes
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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’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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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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 Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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