Quotes from Jack London

It's colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.

Wall Street—so named from a street in ancient New York, where was situated the stock exchange, and where the irrational organization of society permitted underhanded manipulation of all the industries of the country.

The hunger pangs were sharp.  They gnawed and gnawed until he could not keep his mind steady on the course he must pursue to gain the land of little sticks. 

Un fantasma è l'anima d'un morto che non sa d'essere morto.

One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise? 

We wanted to select our own labour.  In another year the time will be up for most of the original gang.  You see, they were recruited during the first year of Berande, and their contracts expire on different months. 

How can you manage all alone, Mr. Young?" His large, almost girlish eyes rested on her for a moment before he replied, and then it was in the softest and gentlest of voices. "Oh, I get along pretty well with them. 

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu, doÄŸuÅŸtan bir kumarbaz. ve yaÅŸam da masaya sürebileceÄŸi en büyük pey.

never thought about it so abstractly," he confessed.  "I've been too busy puzzling over why I came here.

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mere web page of spouse-beating on the Susquehanna.

But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.

He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial lite. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of times he obeyed.

you don't know the game of buying brains. I do. That's my specialty. I'm going to make money out of them

of course she promptly loved him, or thought she did, which amounts to the same thing.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience.  But growth demanded disobedience.

Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 

Bu h?rs?zl?k ayn? zamanda, ac?mas?z var olma mücadelesinde anlams?z bir engel olan ahlak anlay???n?n çürüdüÄŸünü veya parçaland???n? da gösteriyordu.

He hated the oblivion of sleep. There was too much to do, too much of life to live. He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association

It was only for a moment, but it was a long moment to him, during which his blood turned to wine and sang through his veins.