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"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances."
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Jack LondonLife achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it w — Jack London
"Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."
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Jack London
Jack London
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John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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"I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself."
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"I love the flesh. Im a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”"
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"Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest."
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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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"Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin."
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