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Jack London

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


— Jack London


#after #club #go #inspiration #wait

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.


— Jack London


#inspiration #inspirational

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.


— Jack London


#charity #dog #hungry #just #shared

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.


— Jack London


#making-do #poker #life

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.


— Jack London


#tattoo #tattoos #character

To be able to forget means sanity.


— Jack London


#forgetting #sanity #london

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.


— Jack London


#exist #function #i #live #man

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


— Jack London


#suffering #weak #weakness #london

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.


— Jack London


#london

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.


— Jack London


#clubs #london






About Jack London

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Did you know about Jack London?

They attempted to have children. London's workers laughed at his efforts to play big-time rancher [and considered] the operation a rich man's hobby. "
In 1914 the New Age Magazine quoted a paragraph from The Eastern Star another Masonic publication.

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney January 12 1876 – November 22 1916) was an American author journalist and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang both set in the Klondike Gold Rush as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire" "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life".

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