Jack London słynne cytaty
Żelazna stopa
Źródło: s. 99.
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
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/
White Fang
Jack London: Cytaty po angielsku
“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”
Źródło: The Call of the Wild
“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”
Źródło: The Call of the Wild
“The function of man is to live, not to exist.”
Wariant: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
“So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.”
Źródło: The Call of the Wild
“I am. I was. I am not. I never am.”
Źródło: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. I
“Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.”
"The Sea-Wolf" (1904)
"To Build a Fire" published as a collection of short stories in the book Lost Face (1910)
Van Weydon discovers Wolf Larsen's astonishing array of reading matter. Chapter Five
The Sea-Wolf (1904)
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)
“Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”
"The Wit of Porportuk" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
What Life Means to Me (1905), in Revolution and Other Essays (Macmillan, 1909)
“I was five years old the first time I got drunk.”
Źródło: John Barleycorn (1913), Ch. III
"An Odyssey of the North" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6