Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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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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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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

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

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

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

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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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Even theories must have foundations.

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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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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

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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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I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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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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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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