Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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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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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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

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I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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

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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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

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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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