Jack London Quotes

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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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• 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 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.

  Jack London

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

  Jack London

  Short Life, Men, Atoms

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

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• Affluence means influence.

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  Mean, Reality, Affluence

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

  Jack London

  Sides

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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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• 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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• Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

  Jack London

  Tattoo, Past, Men

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• I would rather be ashes than dust.

  Jack London

  Dust, Ashes

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

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

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  War, Fall, Men

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