The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
More Jack London Quotes
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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