You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
JACK LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
More Jack London Quotes
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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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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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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