I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONI’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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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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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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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Affluence means influence.
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