“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work—just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light;… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“After the dark I shall live again, and there will be women. The future holds the little women for me in the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Definitions must agree, not with egos, but with life. Mr. Burroughs goes on the basis that a definition is something hard and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I could never live out completely one full experience, one point of consciousness in time and space. My dreams, if dreams they… — Jack London Copy Share Image
All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Growl he would, from the moment the petting began till it ended. But it was a growl with a new note in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“On Gangs: "... This ain't a scrap, fellows. It's murder, an' we ought to stop it." But no one stopped it, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But remember, my reader, whom I hope to have travel far with me through time and space remember, please, my reader, that… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
