Jack London - Quodid

About

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John Griffith London (né Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.

Quotes from Jack London

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

inspiration work creativity

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

life expectations desire demand

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.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

morality immorality

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

ignorance knowledge loss

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

fear loneliness hatred

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

perception change youth old age

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

—Jack London in White Fang

doing life accomplishment achievement

Books

Jack London has the following books quoted on Quodid:

The Sea-Wolf
White Fang