Jack London Quotes

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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

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  Beautiful, Stories, Wreckage

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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.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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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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  Thinking, World, Think Of Me

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

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  Hard Work, Way, Disappoint

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.1380, Stanford University Press

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• Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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  Mind, Limitation

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1315, Delphi Classics

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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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  Dog, Generosity, Giving

  Jack London (2015). “The Road: Classic American Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

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  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3148, Delphi Classics

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• Not all the monsters have fangs.

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  Real, Real Life, Monsters

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• Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

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  Growth

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.65, Jack London

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• 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.

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  San Francisco, Succeed, Looks

  Jack London (1979). “No Mentor But Myself: A Collection of Articles, Essays, Reviews, and Letters on Writing and Writers”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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  Easier, Courses

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.8197, Delphi Classics

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• The function of man is to live, not to exist.

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  Short Life, Men, Atoms

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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  Age, Youth

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.6482, Delphi Classics

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• The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

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  Stills, Lurking

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

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  Song, Life Is, Life Is So Short

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• To be able to forget means sanity.

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  Mean, Able, Forget

  Jack London (2014). “Jack London's Science Fiction (Deluxe Annotated)”, p.474

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• It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

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  Sides

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• Affluence means influence.

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  Mean, Reality, Affluence

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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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  Tattoo, Past, Men

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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. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

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  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

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  Pain, Desire, Possession

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Fire, Earth, Forests

  Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.132

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