I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.


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JACK LONDON
Every other person was dragging a trunk.
JACK LONDON
San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON
I wrote a thousand words every day
JACK LONDON
. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call...
JACK LONDON
And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticate...
JACK LONDON
Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a rece...
JACK LONDON
There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.
FAITH LONDON
We are only deeply interested in others as we are interested in ourselves.
FAITH LONDON
Inspiration is my drug and Expression is my gateway.
FAITH LONDON
I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.
THEOPHILUS LONDON
It is becoming increasingly critical for companies -- especially those in new industry sectors, whos...
DAN LONDON
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have gr...
JACK LONDON
But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat int...
JACK LONDON
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, ...
JACK LONDON
Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking-
glass, that night when he got...
JACK LONDON
I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The m...
LAUREN LONDON
Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted...
JACK LONDON
Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for ...
JACK LONDON
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze...
JACK LONDON
Decadence: The Passing of Personal Virtue and Its Replacement by Political and Psychological Slogans...
LONDON SCHOOL
RELATIONSHIPS ARE LIKE CARS, SOMEWHERE AT SOME POINT THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK DOWN...AND IF YOU DON'T...
FAITH LONDON
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for him...
JACK LONDON
It's funny how we can put so much faith in something we truly believe will always be there and when ...
FAITH LONDON
Oh good your stubborn, but where's your stubborn taking you?
FAITH LONDON
His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib ...
JACK LONDON
There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness th...
JACK LONDON
It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one of the first songs of the younger world in a day w...
JACK LONDON
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is th...
JACK LONDON
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation ...
JACK LONDON
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adv...
JACK LONDON
Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, ba...
JACK LONDON
At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud...
JACK LONDON
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a...
JACK LONDON
He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fan...
JACK LONDON
He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primor...
JACK LONDON
There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless ...
JACK LONDON
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his ad...
JACK LONDON
He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primord...
JACK LONDON
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
JACK LONDON
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks...
JACK LONDON
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
JACK LONDON
He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The ...
JACK LONDON
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, go...
JACK LONDON