As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.
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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