Quotes by Jack London

About Jack London:

John Griffith was an American author, 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.
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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Jack London

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

Jack London

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream...

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twen...

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Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

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From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein on...

Jack London

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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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.

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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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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.

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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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Author Bio

  • NameJack London
  • DescriptionAmerican author, journalist, and social activist
  • AliasesJohn Griffith Chaney; John Griffith "Jack" London
  • BornJanuary 12, 1876
  • DiedNovember 22, 1916
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Novelist; Reporter; Essayist; Autobiographer