The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.
Jack LondonBut I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
Jack LondonWolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all.
Jack LondonHe who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.
Jack LondonPray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.
Jack LondonDon't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
Jack LondonTag: inspiration club
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
Jack LondonFrom Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate. It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum. And so with the editorial machine. One slot brought checks and the other brought rejection slips. So far he had found only the latter slot.
Jack LondonTag: writing writing-life
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
Jack LondonMy mistake was in ever opening the books.
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