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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 495df45 | We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words--Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over.. | Jack London | ||
| 13a190a | Man always gets less than he demands from life. | Jack London | ||
| 85f595b | Their hate bound them together as love could never bind. | Jack London | ||
| 2f25963 | John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too convulsed with rage to speak. "If you strike that dog again, I'll kill you," he at last managed to say in a choking voice." | Jack London | ||
| 9c420b9 | As he piled wood on the fire he discovered an appreciation of his own body which he had never felt before...It fascinated him, and he grew suddenly fond of this subtle flesh of his that worked so beautifully and smoothly and delicately. Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realization would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so mu.. | Jack London | ||
| 68a15a3 | Jack London jest krolem. | Christopher McCandless | ||
| 9b09eae | Morrell, ever a true comrade, too had a splendid brain. In fact, and I who am about to die have the right to say it without incurring the charge of immodesty, the three best minds in San Quentin from the Warden down were the three that rotted there together in solitary. And here at the end of my days, reviewing all that I have known of life, I am compelled to the conclusion that strong minds are never docile. The stupid men, the fearful men.. | Jack London | ||
| 02a2498 | He shook his fist angrily at the gleaming eyes, and began securely to prop his moccasins before the fire. 'An' I wisht this cold snap'd break,' he went on. 'It's been fifty below for two weeks now. An' I wisht I'd never started on this trip, Henry. I don't like the looks of it. I don't feel right, somehow. An' while I'm wishin', I wisht the trip was over an' done with, an' you an' me a-sittin' by the fire in Fort McGurry just about now an'.. | Jack London | ||
| faaa1fc | The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck | Jack London | ||
| 68792b3 | Chafing at custom's chain; | Jack London | ||
| 735d876 | On Editors: "... The chief qualification of ninety-nine per cent of all editors is failure. They have failed as writers. Don't think they prefer the drudgery of the desk and the slavery to their circulation and to the business manager to the joy of writing. They have tried to write, and they have failed. And right there is the cursed paradox of it. Every portal to success in literature is guarded by those watch-dogs, the failures of literat.. | Jack London | ||
| 57cb7e3 | Yes, yes," he shut off her attempted objection. "You would have destroyed my writing and my career. Realism is imperative to my nature, and the bourgeois spirit hates realism. The bourgeoisie is cowardly. It is afraid of life. And all your effort was to make me afraid of life. You would have formalized me. You would have compressed me into a two-by-four pigeonhole of life, where all life's values are unreal and false and vulgar." He felt he.. | Jack London | ||
| f1b256d | I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet." - Jack London" -- | Jack London | ||
| c217ea8 | Drink," says the White Logic. "The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence." | Jack London | ||
| 20b6585 | Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me. | nobility roar | Jack London | |
| 7bc6b3c | Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me a man with a tattoo, and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. | Jack London | ||
| 0f9d556 | And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them. | Jack London | ||
| 525e405 | They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization. | Jack London | ||
| d44c4e1 | It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone. | Jack London | ||
| b8a6bfb | There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in "the Absolutist")" | John Boyne | ||
| 786494f | I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born. | Jack London | ||
| cade64d | Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things. | culture education illusion | Jack London | |
| deec16a | Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean--an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the.. | jack-london the-road tramp travel | Jack London | |
| 1bcf163 | Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world. | classic classic-literature happiness jack-london nature | Jack London | |
| f73e8a9 | Beauty is the only master to serve. | Jack London | ||
| 5a8055c | No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional. | Jack London | ||
| 3ef43f4 | However we resolve the issue in our individual homes, the moral challenge is, put simply, to make work visible again: not only the scrubbing and vacuuming, but all the hoeing, stacking, hammering, drilling, bending, and lifting that goes into creating and maintaining a livable habitat. In an ever more economically unequal world, where so many of the affluent devote their lives to ghostly pursuits like stock trading, image making, and opinio.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 6c33810 | For all the talk about the need to be a likable "team player," many people work in a fairly cutthroat environment that would seem to be especially challenging to those who possess the recommended traits. Cheerfulness, upbeatness, and compliance: these are the qualities of subordinates -- of servants rather than masters, women (traditionally, anyway) rather than men. After advising his readers to overcome the bitterness and negativity engend.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 3089f75 | But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| cba6162 | My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 619ad6e | trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| d791b76 | the child's heart bled when it was broken. | little-men louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fcdf5b0 | young minds cannot be driven... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| e58f79c | If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing to the world though, as most of us write too much now,' said Mrs. Jo... | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 3f97fef | I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5f43564 | Don't let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes," whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie's black head towered above the rest. "He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes," returned Amy, gliding away to war Hergules to beware of the dragon, which warning cased him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8b56a5f | My Jo, you may say anything to your mother, for it is my greatest happiness and pride to feel that my girls confide in me and know how much I love them. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 8d81f1b | I wanted to show that the mother was the heroine as soon as possible. I'm tired of love-sick girls and runaway wives. We'll prove that there's romance in old women also. | jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ef06bd2 | she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 5056863 | the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. | louisa-may-alcott wishful-thinking | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 54739e4 | How beautiful that is!" said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind." | love women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 3b607de | Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond" | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 60348d4 | Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug." | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 90588e8 | That's it!" said Jo to herself, when she at length discovered that genuine good will toward one's fellow men could beautify and dignify even a stout German teacher, who shoveled in his dinner, darned his own socks, and was burdened with the name of Bhaer." | Louisa May Alcott |