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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you. Capt. Wolf Larsen
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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
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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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The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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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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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
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There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.
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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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You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly
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His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
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