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

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

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

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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

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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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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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

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

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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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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

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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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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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