Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONNot all the monsters have fangs.
JACK LONDONHe 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 LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONI would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
JACK LONDONDon’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.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONGo strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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 LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONLife, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDON