Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDONHe 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.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDONA good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
JACK LONDONThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
JACK LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONIt is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
JACK LONDON