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I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Jack London

Needs, Ships, Swearing

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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Jack London

Womb, Deeper, The Wild Nature

Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.11, Oxford Paperbacks

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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

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Dog, Fighting, Law

Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.51, Lulu.com

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Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

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Brother, Sex, Husband

Jack London (2017). “Jack London for Kids – Breathtaking Adventure Tales & Animal Stories (Illustrated Edition): Children’s Book Classics, Including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Jerry of the Islands, The Cruise of the Dazzler, Michael Brother of Jerry & Before Adam”, p.134, e-artnow

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On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

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Struggle, Moving, Men

Jack London (2000). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.80, Modern Library

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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

Jack London

Couple, Men, Glasses

Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Jack London

Futility Of Life, Laughing, Effort

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But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

Jack London

Memories, Animal, Men

Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.128, Lulu.com

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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Jack London

Memories, San Francisco, Gone

Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7702, Delphi Classics

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Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

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Mother, Law, Caves

Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.207, Bantam Classics

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But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

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Dream, Moving, Would Be

Jack London (2015). “Jack London The Dover Reader”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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I was jealous; therefore I loved.

Jack London

Jealous

Jack London (2016). “The Sea-Wolf (Diversion Classics)”, p.200, Diversion Books

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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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Life, Stars, Perfect

Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.25, Lulu.com

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But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love.

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Dog, Heart, White

Jack London (2016). “White Fang”, p.115, My Ebook Publishing House

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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Jack London

Poetry, Rhyming, Fool

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

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For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

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Dog, Pride, Sick

Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.349, Delphi Classics

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The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

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Dream, Men, Perfect

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He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

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Pain, Distance, Impact

Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

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Sparks, Bags, Half

Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.38, Lulu.com

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Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

Jack London

Heart, Hawaii, Stealing

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Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

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Play, Energy, Process

Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.90, Jack London

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My mistake was in ever opening the books.

Jack London

Mistake, Book, My Mistakes

Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.574, Delphi Classics

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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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Expression, Surrender, Masters

Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.176, Jack London

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I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

Jack London

Echoes, Self, Voice

"Return Again: How to Find Meaning in Your Past Lives and Your Interlives" by Georgina Cannon, (p. 17), 2012.

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Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

Jack London

Writing, Unhappy, Connections

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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Born: January 12, 1876
Died: November 22, 1916
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