Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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 LONDONToo much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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 LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONThere’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
JACK LONDONNo; 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.
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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 LONDONI’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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 LONDONAnd how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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