Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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Golf is a mental disorder.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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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 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 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 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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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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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

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

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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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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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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

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

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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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