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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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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

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

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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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I could write stories just as rotten.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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

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

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

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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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