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Jack London: 22 Novels + 57 Short Stories (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book) QUOTES

Jack London: 22 Novels + 57 Short Stories (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book) QUOTES

1 " So summer waited for open water, and the tardy Yukon took to stretching of days and cracking its stiff joints. Now an air-hole ate into the ice, and ate and ate; or a fissure formed, and grew, and failed to freeze again. Then the ice ripped from the shore and uprose bodily a yard. But still the river was loth to loose its grip. It was a slow travail, and man, used to nursing nature with pigmy skill, able to burst waterspouts and harness waterfalls, could avail nothing against the billions of frigid tons which refused to run down the hill to Bering Sea. "

― Jack London , Jack London: 22 Novels + 57 Short Stories (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book)

2 " One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise?  "

― Jack London , Jack London: 22 Novels + 57 Short Stories (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book)