Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was one of my all time favourite authors as a child; White Fang was probably in my bedroom more than the local library and Call of the Wild ran it a very close second.
I’d all but forgotten about those books, but then up stumbles his name on our anniversary list. What else could I do but share with you just some of the wonderful quotes that made me love him and his books.
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
“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.”
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. ”
“But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
“Pray do not interrupt me,” he wrote. “I am smiling.”
I’d lost Jack at some point during the years spent growing up and I’m really pleased to have found him again. I will be becoming reacquainted with him and White Fang very soon.
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