Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

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Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.

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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

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I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

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In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

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