If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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