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
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.
inspirational life motivational
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
funny witty life-changing
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
misunderstood mercy made
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
men valuation deprived
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
inspirational life ambition
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
tattoo past men
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
dog intelligent feet
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he found himself.