Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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About Jack London

Portrait of Jack London

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...

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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

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

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

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He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

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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.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

—Edwin Markham

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

—George Burns

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

—Edith Wharton

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

—George Burns

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