Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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Even theories must have foundations.

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

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Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

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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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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 verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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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 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 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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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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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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I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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

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