Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONI believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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 LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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 LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONToo much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
JACK LONDONI would rather be ashes than dust.
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 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 LONDONDon’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
JACK LONDON