Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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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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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Affluence means influence.
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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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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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