But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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 would rather be ashes than dust.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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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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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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