Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
More Jack London Quotes
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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He 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.
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