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My mistake was in ever opening the books.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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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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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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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
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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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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.
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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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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
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