Jack London quotes - page 2

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. (Jack London)
He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. View quote
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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body. View quote
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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. View quote
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Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. View quote
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Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the Ghost'll be a hell ship like she's always been since he had hold iv her. View quote
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"I only remember one part of the service," he said, "and that is 'And the body shall be cast into the sea.' View quote
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"The cap'n is Wolf Larsen, or so men call him. I never heard his other name. But you better speak soft with him. He is mad this morning. The mate-" But he did not finish. The cook had glided in. View quote
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My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But" - and his voice changed and the light went out of his face - "what is this condition in which I find myself? This joy of living? This exultation of life? This inspiration, I may well call it? It comes when there is nothing wrong with one's digestion, when the stomach is in trim and and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well. View quote
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Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on. View quote
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. (Jack London)
To be able to forget means sanity. View quote
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. View quote
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. View quote
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. View quote
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? View quote
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It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself. View quote
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame. View quote
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Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. View quote
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. View quote
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone. (Jack London)
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. View quote
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. View quote
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My mistake was in ever opening the books. View quote
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. View quote
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