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• Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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  Men, Valuation, Deprived

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.5942, Delphi Classics

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• Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

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  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.150, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Light

  Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press

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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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  Taste, Judgment, Mankind

  Jack London (1903). “Novels and Social Writings”, p.742, Library of America

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

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  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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

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  Misunderstood, Mercy, Made

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

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  Meat, Aim Of Life, Aim

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.76, Jack London

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• Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

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  Consciousness, States, Pursuit

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.451, Delphi Classics

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

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  Life, Hurt, Games

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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  Art, Men, Conquer

  Jack London (2015). “The Valley of the Moon: Classic American Literature”, p.113, 谷月社

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• Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

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  Writing, Men, Too Much

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1475, Delphi Classics

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• A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

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  Blood, Sweat, Remuneration

  Jack London, Dale L. Walker, Jeanne Campbell Reesman (1999). “No Mentor But Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing”, p.57, Stanford University Press

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

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  Sports, Home, Thinking

  "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.

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• 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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  London, Meteors, Sparks

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

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• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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  Environment, Recoil

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

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• If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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  Cash, Fame, Ifs

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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

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  Spring, Winter, Silence

  Jack London (2005). “The Call of the Wild - Spotlight Edition”, p.63, Prestwick House Inc

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• Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

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  Alcohol, Normal, Truth Is

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

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  Mother, Fake People, Class

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• Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.

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  Kings, Clothes, Sea

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• There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Fall, Men

  "John Barleycorn" by Jack London, (Ch. II), 1913.

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• Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

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  Islands, Hawaii, Determine

  Jack London (1965). “Stories of Hawaii”

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• I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

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  Book, Writing, Add

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.10, Jack London

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• 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.

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  Life, Afar, Facts

  Jack London, Anna B. Strunsky, Anna Strunsky Walling, Douglas Robillard (1990). “The Kempton-Wace Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. 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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  Memories, Believe, Soul

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