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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men (Jack London Quotes)
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly (Jack London Quotes)
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them (Jack London Quotes)
There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne (Jack London Quotes)
As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt (Jack London Quotes)
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do (Jack London Quotes)
Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the God. In return, he guarded the god’s property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him (Jack London Quotes)
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him (Jack London Quotes)
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 (Jack London Quotes)
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread (Jack London Quotes)
I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet (Jack London Quotes)
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive (Jack London Quotes)
For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work (Jack London Quotes)
And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine (Jack London Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? (Jack London Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past (Jack London Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Jack London Quotes)
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write (Jack London Quotes)
He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it (Jack London Quotes)
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge (Jack London Quotes)
Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do (Jack London Quotes)
I love the flesh. I’m a pagan. Who are they who speak evil of the clay? the very stars are made of clay like mine! (Jack London Quotes)
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself (Jack London Quotes)
One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself (Jack London Quotes)
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 (Jack London Quotes)
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist (Jack London Quotes)
Then one can’t make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes (Jack London Quotes)