Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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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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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Affluence means influence.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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