Jack London

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“You are my Avis,” he said, “and you are also some one else. You are two women, and therefore you are my…

— Jack London

“There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and…

— Jack London

“But remember, my reader, whom I hope to have travel far with me through time and space remember, please, my reader, that…

— Jack London

“He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, "I don't believe you want to work." Now this was irrelevant.…

— Jack London

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

— Jack London

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered…

— Jack London

“On Women: "What do you mean?" Martin asked curiously, passing him a glass. "Here, down this and be good." "Because–" Brissenden sipped…

— Jack London

“In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand…

— Jack London

“…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.”

— Jack London

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

— Jack London

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had…

— Jack London

“Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a…

— Jack London

“A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls,…

— Jack London

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that…

— Jack London

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb…

— Jack London

“The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.”

— Jack London

“At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were…

— Jack London

“Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much…

— Jack London

“I shall never forget, in that moment, how instantly conscious I became of my manhood. The primitive deeps of my nature stirred.…

— Jack London

“Morality is only evidence of low blood pressure.”

— Jack London

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

— Jack London

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

— Jack London

“He talked to White Fang as White Fang had never been talked to before. He talked softly and soothingly, with a gentleness…

— Jack London

“O trabalho do homem é efémero e esvai-se como a espuma do mar... Sim, é isto mesmo. Neste planeta, o homem domesticou…

— Jack London