Jack London Short Quotes

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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.

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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

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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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

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But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

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Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

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He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

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There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

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Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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In my jaw are cunning artifices of the dentists which replace the parts of me already gone.

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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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At first, you fear you will die; then, after it has a good hold on you, you fear you won't die.
On seasickness

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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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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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The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

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He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.

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In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness — faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

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