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Jack London
American
Novelist
About the author
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Inspiration
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Poor
#Cards
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.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Living
#Paradox
#Ecstasy
#Forgetfulness
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#God
#Mother
#Class
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.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Man
#Trying
#Waste
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Nature
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Fame
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.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Now
#Reason
#Purpose
#Beauty
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London,
American
Novelist
Affluence means influence.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Influence
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.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Charity
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack London,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Memories