The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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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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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Affluence means influence.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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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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