Long Quotes by Jack London

8 Long quotes by Jack London

Jack London's thoughts on longness carry his gritty, adventurous spirit. Though the list is brief, each line offers a swift, rugged taste of his frontier worldview.

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And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In…

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You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live…

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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every…

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“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for…

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With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under…

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I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There…

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When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors,…

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Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.

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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient…

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“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God…

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more you drink more you want

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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of…

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in…

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A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only…

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I would rather be ashes than dust.

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“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the…

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“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

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“Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me a man…

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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…

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