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Jack London [1876-1916] American

Rank: 101
Novelist

John Griffith "Jack" London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

Beauty, God, Good, Life, Motivational, Space, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.	Good, Life	101
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.	Time	102
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.	Motivational	103
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.		104
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.		105
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.	God	106
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.		107
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?		108
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.	Space	109
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.		110
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.	Beauty	111
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?		112
Affluence means influence.		113
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.		114
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.		115
San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.		116

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