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«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.»
«You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.»
«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.»
Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: prolong, proper time
«There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.»
«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.»
Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | About: Charity | Keywords: bone, The Dog
«The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class»
«Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?»
Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | About: Nostalgia
«I wrote a thousand words every day»
Author: Jack London (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writing
«. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.»
«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.»

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