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Quote by Jack London
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now be

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London

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Tattoos
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Jack London
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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. – Jack London

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Helping
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

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Carpe Diem
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk

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Beauty

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Beauty

So, we just kind of created our own thing and thats part of the beauty of Athens: is that its so off the map and theres no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. – Michael Stipe

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Beauty

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. – Alexander Alekhine

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Beauty

Random Quotes

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government – bad combination. – John Stossel

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Fear

We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it. – Donald Horban

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Simplicity

I believe in America because we have great dreams – and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. – Wendell L. Wilkie

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USA Patriotic

There arent many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks its cool if youre the bad girl. – Fiona Apple

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cool