Inspiration: JACK LONDON

A few random on-topic quotes from Jack London:

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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.
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

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How many lives were forever changed by opening a book? The gold of childhood made, more golden, perhaps.

Something ancient, and primordial, gets stirred, and reawakened, just thinking about these books. (Dare I say, my hackles are raised!)

I am twelve again, and chasing Porcupines.

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"He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.”
― Jack London, White Fang