Francisco

“a starched collar affected him as a renunciation of freedom.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re fucking lost.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another’s opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden