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Jack London Quotes

Birth Date: 1876-01-12 (Wednesday, January 12th, 1876)
Date of Death: 1916-11-22 (Wednesday, November 22nd, 1916)

 

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Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.Sunday, July 25th, 1897
London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.Sunday, October 29th, 1967

Quotes

    • The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
    • I am. I was. I am not. I never am.
    • There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.
    • I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
    • Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
    • The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick.
    • Life's not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
    • I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
    • 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.
    • I have always stood for the exalting of the life that is in me over art, or any other extraneous thing.
    • The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for someone else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to mediocrity. If you're going to deliver the real goods, you've got to do your own licking into shape. Buck up ! Kick in ! Get onto yourself ! Don't squeal ! Don't tell me, or any other man how good you consider anything you've done, and that you think it is as good as somebody else's. Make your work so damned well better that you won't have time or thought to compare it with another man's mediocrity.
    • 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.
    • You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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