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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack London
Memories
Nothing
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.
Jack London
Charity
Affluence means influence.
Jack London
Influence
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London
Beauty
Purpose
Now
Reason
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack London
Fame
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Inspiration
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack London
Nature
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.
Jack London
Time
Man
Trying
Waste
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Jack London
God
Mother
Class
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London
Life
Ecstasy
Forgetfulness
Living
Paradox
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
Life
Cards
Poor