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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Air

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

  Sleep, Atoms, Writing Words

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• In a saturated population life is always cheap.

  Jack London

  Population, Life Is, Saturated

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.7634, Delphi Classics

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• There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

  Jack London

  Justice, Judging, Greater

  Jack London (2014). “Jack London Complete Collection Northern Tales (annotated)”, p.1050, BookBaby

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• With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

  Jack London

  Song, Stars, Keys

  Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

  Jack London

  Song, Heart, Years

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.4442, Delphi Classics

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• Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

  Jack London

  Fire, Earth, Forests

  Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.132

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• 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. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• I would rather be ashes than dust.

  Jack London

  Dust, Ashes

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

  Jack London

  Taken, Afraid Of Life, Ashamed

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.279, Stanford University Press

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• The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

  Jack London

  Strong, Feelings, Language

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3186, Delphi Classics

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• He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

  Jack London

  Silent, Fury, Torment

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• Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

  Jack London

  Men, Political, Lasts

  Jack London (2014). “A Collection of Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

  Jack London

  Writing, Sweat, Stories

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

  Jack London

  Companion

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

  Jack London

  Law, Depth, Mandates

  Jack London (1904). “The Call of the Wild”

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• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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• The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

  Jack London

  Lying, Men, Law

  Jack London (2015). “The People of the Abyss”, p.148, Jack London

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• As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

  Jack London

  Hurt, Suffering, Weakness

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3184, Delphi Classics

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• Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

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  Misunderstood, Mercy, Made

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

  Jack London

  Men, Valuation, Deprived

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.5942, Delphi Classics

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• A man with a club is a law-maker.

  Jack London

  Men, Law, Clubs

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

  Jack London

  Time, Gears, World

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.8403, Delphi Classics

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