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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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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.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
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His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
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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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Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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.
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My mistake was in ever opening the books.
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No I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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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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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)
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
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He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.
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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.
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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
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