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.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
More Jack London Quotes
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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