Jack London's Credo

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.

Notes:

Live fast, die young, leave a good lookin' corpse.

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 Tales of adventure
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  London , Jack (1956), Tales of adventure, Retrieved on 2012-06-11
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  • Folksonomies: fiction