Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it.
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JACK LONDON But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adv... JACK LONDON Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, ba... JACK LONDON At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud... JACK LONDON He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fan... JACK LONDON He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primor... JACK LONDON There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless ... JACK LONDON The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his ad... JACK LONDON He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primord... JACK LONDON So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you. JACK LONDON They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks... JACK LONDON The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. JACK LONDON He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The ... JACK LONDON He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, go... JACK LONDON No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir. JACK LONDON A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated. JACK LONDON Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling a... JACK LONDON Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. JACK LONDON He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a... JACK LONDON But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued... JACK LONDON Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me mo... THEOPHILUS LONDON