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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 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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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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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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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 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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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

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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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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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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

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

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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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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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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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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