Quotes by Jack London

Jack London

American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney)

Lived from: 1876 - 1916

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 12 january 1876 Died: 22 november 1916

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• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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• I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than 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.

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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• magnificent
• permanent
• sometimes
• holding
• playing
• meteor

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