I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.
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.
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.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. - Jack London
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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.
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.…
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.
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