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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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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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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

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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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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." -Jane-

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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