You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONYou look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
JACK LONDONHe was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
JACK LONDONLove 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.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONYou stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
JACK LONDONThe 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