White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
More Jack London Quotes
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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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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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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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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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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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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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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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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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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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