Quote#Books & Reading
But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer…
Quote byJack London · 1876–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Call of the Wild (1903).
English (original)
But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.
— Jack London
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