The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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 good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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 was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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 look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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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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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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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Strength is an empty shell.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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