I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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