38 ordspråk av Jack London

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Jack London föddes den January 12th 1876 och dog den 22 November 1916 - whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. One of the most extensively translated of American authors.
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 . . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

 . . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

 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.

 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.

 Affluence means influence
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 Affluence means influence

 And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

 Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego

 I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

 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.

 I wrote a thousand words every day

 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.

 Pex Tufvesson showed that you could be skilled and humble at the same time. The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class

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

 . . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.


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