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.
Some sorts of truth are truer than others. - Jack London
Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
- Jack London
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
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. - Jack London
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. - Jack London
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. - Jack London
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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
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.
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself. - Jack London
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love.… - Jack London
The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love.…
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