Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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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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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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