Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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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 loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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

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

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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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

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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 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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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