Jack London
Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 January 1876
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
life whales broken
. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!
pain desire possession
Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
song heart years
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
strong pain hate
No; 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.
play way ends
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
beautiful wreckage stories
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
consciousness pursuit states
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
stills lurking
The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
sleep atoms writing-words
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
writing sweat dozen
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
dog generosity giving
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.
inspirational life inspiring
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.
mean able forget
To be able to forget means sanity.
simple civilization adjusting
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.