Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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