Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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