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Jack London (Writer)

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

— Jack London god

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

— jack london inspiration

A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die…. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

— jack london death

Show me a man with a tattoo and Ill show you a man with an interesting past.

— jack london past

Dont loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

— jack london inspiration

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

— jack london world

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 life

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 beauty

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

— jack london man

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

— Jack London man

I wrote a thousand words every day

— Jack London words

Affluence means influence

— Jack London 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 you

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 man

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

— Jack London fame

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

— Jack London life

One cannot violate the promptings of ones nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

— Jack London nature

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

— Jack London memories

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 time

You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

— Jack London inspiration

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