Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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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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I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

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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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Golf is a mental disorder.

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

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I could write stories just as rotten.

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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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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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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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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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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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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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