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Jack London Quotes
Best Quotes by Jack London (Top 10)
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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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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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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More Jack London Quotes
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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.
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Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations"this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.
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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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With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself—one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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