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Jack London, születési nevén John Griffith Chaney amerikai író, elbeszélő.

✵ 12. január 1876 – 22. november 1916
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Jack London híres idézetei

„Némelyik regényírónak balszerencséje, hogy az átlagember szemében az elbeszélő műfaj és a hazugság egy és ugyanazt jelenti.”

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Előszó A vadon szava című regényéhez

„Ha csontot löksz a kutyának, még nem vagy jótékony. Akkor vagy jótékony, ha megosztod a csontot a kutyával, pedig magad is éppoly éhes vagy, mint a kutya.”

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„Inkább elénekelnék egy vad dalt, és megrepeszteném a szívem, mintsem ezer évet élnék, miközben figyelném az emésztésemet és félnék a nedvességtől.”

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„Inkább lennék egy pompás meteor, minden atomom pompás ragyogásban, mint egy álmos és állandó bolygó.”

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Jack London: Idézetek angolul

“He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Ten

“These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter One

“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants…. The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.”

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Jack London könyv John Barleycorn

Forrás: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. II

“And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Twelve

“"I only remember one part of the service," he said, "and that is 'And the body shall be cast into the sea.'”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

So cast it in."
Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Three

“"The cap'n is Wolf Larsen, or so men call him. I never heard his other name. But you better speak soft with him. He is mad this morning. The mate-" But he did not finish. The cook had glided in.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Two

“Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.”

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Jack London könyv John Barleycorn

Forrás: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. V

“Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”

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Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

White Fang (1906)

“The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Ten

“Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all. Wolf. just Wolf, tis what he is. D'ye wonder he's well named?”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Six

“"My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But" - and his voice changed and the light went out of his face - "what is this condition in which I find myself? This joy of living? This exultation of life? This inspiration, I may well call it? It comes when there is nothing wrong with one's digestion, when the stomach is in trim and and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well."”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Seven

“Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.”

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Jack London könyv The Sea-Wolf

Forrás: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Eight

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

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Jack London könyv Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild (1903)

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

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Jack London Martin Eden

Forrás: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII

“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.”

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Jack London Martin Eden

Forrás: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. VIII

“I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!””

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Jack London

Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (11 August 1905)

“The great driving force of the oligarchs is the belief that they are doing right.”

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Jack London könyv The Iron Heel

Forrás: The Iron Heel (1907), Ch. XXI