Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack LondonI'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen
Jack LondonThen one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
Jack LondonThe great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.
Jack London. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!
Jack London