Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
JACK LONDONYou 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.
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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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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 Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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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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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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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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