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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 presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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

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

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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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Golf is a mental disorder.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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

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

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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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