Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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 have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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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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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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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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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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 believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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

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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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

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We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

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