Jack London - Martin Eden (1909)

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He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.

Jack London

Much of this he strove to express to Ruth, and shocked her and made it clear that more remodelling was necessary. Hers was that common insularity of mind that makes human creatures believe that their color, creed, and politics are best and right and that other human creatures scattered over the world are less fortunately placed than they. It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from other crannies of life into the likeness of the men who lived in her particular cranny of life.

Jack London

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

Jack London

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

Jack London

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Jack London

He found books on trigonometry in the mathematics section, and ran the pages, and stared at the meaningless formulas and figures.

Jack London