And 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 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 LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONI do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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 LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONIn a saturated population life is always cheap.
JACK LONDONThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
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 LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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 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 LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON