The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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