Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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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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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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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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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 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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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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