Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDONThe most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONTo be able to forget means sanity.
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 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 LONDONBut I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
JACK LONDONLove is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
JACK LONDONSome sorts of truth are truer than others.
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 LONDONLimited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
JACK LONDONMan rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
JACK LONDONHis conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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 LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
JACK LONDONIf cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
JACK LONDON