Talk:Jack London

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• I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

• I have always stood for the exalting of the life that is in me over art, or any other extraneous thing.

• The man who dreams of artistry, and yet thinks it is necessary for someone else to lick him into shape, is a man whose art is doomed to mediocrity. If you're going to deliver the real goods, you've got to do your own licking into shape. Buck up ! Kick in ! Get onto yourself ! Don't squeal ! Don't tell me, or any other man how good you consider anything you've done, and that you think it is as good as somebody else's. Make your work so damned well better that you won't have time or thought to compare it with another man's mediocrity.

• "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. "

Datation problem for the "superb meteor" quote

Hi! I have a problem with the current reference for the source of the famous "I would rather be a superb meteor..." quote. For now, it is sourced as an excerpt from The Bulletin, December 2, 1916. But would that mean it to be a posthumous paper, as Jack London died on November 22, 1916? Also, there is a page number and also a section number, which is weird for a newspaper or magazine article. And what is the title of the paper in said newspaper? I first encountered the quote on the Planet article where it is currently wrongly sourced as issued from The Call of the Wild, which it is not. So I am becoming more and more cautious with that quote, which is typically much quoted everywhere on the Web, but without any precise reference. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!--Eunostos (talk) 10:16, 25 February 2021 (UTC)