“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.”
— Jack London Secondary source“Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
— Jack London Primary source“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”
— Jack London Primary source“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
— Jack London Primary source“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
— Jack London Primary source“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”
— Jack London Primary source“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London Primary source“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London DisputedIan Fleming Franklin D. Roosevelt William Blake Abraham Lincoln Ernest Hemingway