I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONI was five years old the first time I got drunk.
JACK LONDONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONIt is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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 LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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 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 LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONThe ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDONShe was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDON