Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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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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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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