Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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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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For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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

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

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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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

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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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