Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Affluence means influence.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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’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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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