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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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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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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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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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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 am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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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.
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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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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.
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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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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.
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...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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