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“Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

— Charles Simic

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Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

“Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

— Charles Simic

Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

Charles Simic Quote: “Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.”

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— Jack London

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5. “I would rather be ashes than dust.”

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6. “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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7. “I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”

— Jack London

8. “The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.”

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

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10. “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.”

— Jack London

11. “Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.”

— Jack London

12. “Not all the monsters have fangs.”

— Jack London

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13. “Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.”

— Jack London

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14. “The Stone the Builders Rejected.”

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

— Jack London

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16. “But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.”

— Jack London

17. “My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?”

— Jack London

18. “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

— Jack London

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

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20. “Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”

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21. “Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.”

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

23. “Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.”

— Jack London

24. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

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25. “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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26. “I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather be a streaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet. I would rather burn out in a blaze of streaming glory than be stifled like dry rot. I shall use my time.”

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27. “Affluence means influence.”

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28. “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.”

— Jack London

29. “The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.”

— Jack London

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30. “Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.”

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31. “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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32. “And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.”

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33. “The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.”

— Jack London

34. “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.”

— Jack London

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35. “To be able to forget means sanity.”

— Jack London

36. “There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.”

— Jack London

37. “A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.”

— Jack London

38. “As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”

— Jack London

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

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40. “It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself.”

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41. “My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

— Jack London

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42. “The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.”

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

— Jack London

44. “Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”

— Jack London

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45. “Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.”

— Jack London

46. “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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47. “Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.”

— Jack London

48. “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

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49. “Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

— Jack London

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50. “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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