A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONSocialism, 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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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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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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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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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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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