Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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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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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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