Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONYou 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.
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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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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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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