A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
More Jack London Quotes
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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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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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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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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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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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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