The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONThe proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
More Jack London Quotes
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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