Jack London Quotes

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

Motivational, After, Wait

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.
Jack London

Dog, Hungry, Charity

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London

Life, Good, Sometimes

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

Rather, Planet, Sleepy

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.
Jack London

Time, Live, Trying

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

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London

Life, Living, Cannot

Affluence means influence.
Jack London

Means, Influence, Affluence

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

Why, Turn, Wheel

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.
Jack London

Rather, Planet, Sleepy

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

Beauty, Book, Reason

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

Nature, Cannot, Recoil

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Jack London

God, Mother, Class

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Jack London

Life, Short, Rather

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

Nothing, Memories, Gone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 12, 1876

Died: November 22, 1916

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