Jack London cytaty

Jack London, – amerykański pisarz.

Syn Flory Wellman i H.W. Chaneya. Nazwisko przyjął od ojczyma, Johna Londona. Autor powieści i opowiadań z wątkami autobiograficznymi. London miał niezwykle barwne życie. Samouk, był m.in. gazeciarzem, trampem, kłusownikiem, marynarzem, poszukiwaczem złota w Klondike i reporterem. Jako korespondent wojenny relacjonował konflikt rosyjsko-japoński w 1905 r. i wojnę domową w Meksyku. W jego twórczości często pojawia się motyw samotnej walki człowieka z panującym porządkiem społecznym i siłami przyrody.

Jego oparte na własnych przeżyciach powieści są zawieszone pomiędzy naturalizmem a przygodowym romantyzmem. Był socjalistą, ale inspirację czerpał z idei głoszonych przez Marksa, Darwina, Spencera i Nietzschego, dlatego w swoim światopoglądzie łączył idee socjalistyczne z teorią walki o byt i podziwem dla silnych jednostek.

Po przedwczesnej śmierci Londona ukuto popularną do dziś plotkę, jakoby miał on popełnić samobójstwo. W ostatnich dniach życia pisarz uśmierzał wprawdzie bardzo silny ból morfiną i jest teoretycznie możliwe, że świadomie ją przedawkował, teza ta jednak nie znajduje potwierdzenia ani w dowodach, ani w świadectwach z pierwszej ręki. Na akcie zgonu pisarza jako oficjalna przyczyna jego odejścia figuruje mocznica, efekt ciężkiej niewydolności nerek. Przyczyną plotki prawdopodobnie był motyw samobójstwa w jego powieściach, w jednej z nich bohater w obliczu rychłej śmierci i strasznego bólu z pomocą lekarza popełnił samobójstwo przedawkowując morfinę.

Po dojściu Hitlera do władzy w Niemczech, wśród około 20 000 spalonych książek znalazły się dzieła Jacka Londona. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Styczeń 1876 – 22. Listopad 1916
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Jack London słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Zew krwi.”

Jack London książka Zew krwi

The Call of the Wild (ang.)
tytuł powieści z 1903 roku.

Jack London cytaty

„Życie? Przecież ono nie ma żadnej wartości. To najtańsza z niedrogich rzeczy.”

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. (ang.)
Źródło: The Sea-Wolf

„Dobroczynność nie polega na dawaniu kości psu. Dobroczynność to kość dzielona z psem wówczas, gdy jesteś równie głodny jak on.”

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. (ang.)
Źródło: Confession http://www.online-literature.com/london/the-road/1/

Jack London: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

Wariant: "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." also mentioned as Jack London quote in Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit
Źródło: San Francisco Bulletin in 1916. Also included as an introduction to a compilation of Jack London short stories in 1956.

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”

"Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine
Wariant: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Kontekst: Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Kontekst: Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible - if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded... Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.
Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)
Kontekst: I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. 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.

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)

“He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.”

Jack London książka A Piece of Steak

"A Piece of Steak" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6

“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.”

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Wariant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

Jack London książka The Star Rover

The Star Rover
Wariant: Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel

“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”

Jack London książka Wilk morski

Wolf Larsen, Chapter Six
The Sea-Wolf (1904)

“Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.”

Jack London Martin Eden

Źródło: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. VIII
Kontekst: It was just such uniqueness of points of view that startled Ruth. Not only were they new to her, and contrary to her own beliefs, but she always felt in them germs of truth that threatened to unseat or modify her own convictions. Had she been fourteen instead of twenty-four, she might have been changed by them; but she was twenty-four, conservative by nature and upbringing, and already crystallized into the cranny of life where she had been born and formed. It was true, his bizarre judgments troubled her in the moments they were uttered, but she ascribed them to his novelty of type and strangeness of living, and they were soon forgotten. Nevertheless, while she disapproved of them, the strength of their utterance, and the flashing of eyes and earnestness of face that accompanied them, always thrilled her and drew her toward him. She would never have guessed that this man who had come from beyond her horizon, was, in such moments, flashing on beyond her horizon with wider and deeper concepts. Her own limits were the limits of her horizon; but limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. And so she felt that her outlook was very wide indeed, and that where his conflicted with hers marked his limitations; and she dreamed of helping him to see as she saw, of widening his horizon until it was identified with hers.

“A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.”

"Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine
Kontekst: Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible - if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded... Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

“Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.”

Wariant: Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

“To be able to forget means sanity.”

Jack London książka The Star Rover

Źródło: The Star Rover

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