QUOTES by Jack London
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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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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well."
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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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"Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased."
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"Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave."
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"The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it."
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"But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it."
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"He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang."
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"It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)"
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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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"Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him."
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"He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living."
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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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"They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly."
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"Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them."
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"The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life."
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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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"This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone."
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"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."
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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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"But I am I. "And "I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind"
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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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"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
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"Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past."
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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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"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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