Jack London Quotes, Dream Quotes, Autumn Quotes

The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

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Strength is an empty shell.

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Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.

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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

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Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

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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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Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.

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Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

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When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

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