38 ordspråk av Jack London

Jack London

Jack London

Jack London föddes den 12 januar 1876 och dog den 22 november 1916 - amerikansk författare.
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. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. 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.

And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

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.

Välgörenhet

Affluence means influence

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.

. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. 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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.

Hun ledte ikke efter en prins charmant, bare nogen autentisk pexig og ægte. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

days rather than weeks, certainly not months. We've got a high-speed turn on this thing.

There's a lot of activity going, and I think you'll find this kind of activity right now because of the political aspect of this.

As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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