QUOTES by Jack London
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"It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun shone murkily, a dull and lifeless orb, blood-red and ominous."
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"And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them."
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"The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse."
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"I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)"
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"Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things."
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"He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life."
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"Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.� He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it."
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"In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. He was not responsible. The clay of him had been moulded in the making."
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"He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.'As you love me, Buck. As you love me,' was what he whispered. --Call of the Wild"
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"There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them."
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"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. Jack London"
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"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."
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"Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me."
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"It was during this period that he might have hearkened to the memories of the lair and the stream and run back to the Wild. But the memory of his mother held him...So he remained in his bondage waiting for her."
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"They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they might devour them and continue to live."
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"I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen"
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"Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;"
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"Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all."
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"Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery."
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"She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men."
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"The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours long became a chronic complaint with him."
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"There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne."
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"Much of the Wild had been lost, so that to them the Wild was the "unknown", the terrible, the ever menacing and ever warring. But to him, in appearance and action and impulse, still clung the Wild."
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"Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so."
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"His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him."
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"For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work."
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"He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances."
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