Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. He was an author of over 50 books and about two hundred stories. Jack London was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His novels “Sea Wolf”, “White Tooth”, “Wild Call”, “Martin Eden” are famous worldwide.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits – plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I 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.
I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.
I was jealous; therefore I loved.
Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction.
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
To be able to forget means sanity.
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
A man with a club is a law-maker.
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
Not all the monsters have fangs.
Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
Affluence means influence.
The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.
There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.
Man always gets less than he demands from life.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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