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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 more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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

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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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Even theories must have foundations.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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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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