I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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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 would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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