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

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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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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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Even theories must have foundations.

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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

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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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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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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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