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Jack London
American
Novelist
Born:
Jan 12
,
1876
Died:
Nov 22
,
1916
Atom
Cannot
Every
Life
Me
You
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
Life
Good
Sometimes
Matter
Holding
Well
Hand
Poor
Cards
Playing
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
Live
Prolong
Proper
My Time
Shall
Days
Exist
Trying
Them
Use
Function
Waste
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
Me
Space
Dust
Every
Sleepy
Would
Superb
Atom
Rather
Magnificent
Permanent
Glow
Meteor
Than
Ashes
Planet
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
You
Charity
Dog
Bone
Hungry
Shared
Just
Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Jack London
Life
Song
Thousand
Would
Rather
Sing
Than
Short
Interpret
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
Me
Book
Three
Beauty
Add
Other
Hundred
Magnificent
Purpose
Write
Than
Estate
Acres
Reason
Now
Four
Belongs
Affluence means influence.
Jack London
Affluence
Influence
Means
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
Jack London
World
Must
Gear
Darn
Over
Continually
Reverse
Wheel
Where
Turn
Why
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