Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDONFear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
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 LONDONEverything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
JACK LONDONYou can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDONThe aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDONPursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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 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 LONDONShow me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
JACK LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
JACK LONDONDesire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONSo that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON