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I write to escape; to escape poverty.

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

Exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

pint of champagne.

The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.

P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.

My civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.

The path of the mighty beast was guided telepathically by the two people who sat in a huge saddle that was cinched to the thoat's broad back.

I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.

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

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

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

love denied a childish heart that yearns for love. Little

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

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

From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.

I had had to discard my rifle

Unfailing courtesy and willingness to be of service.

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

Teach me to speak the language of men.

I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here,

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.

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.

P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions

Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Golf is a mental disorder.

I should at least die as I had lived - fighting.

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.

My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.

I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do.

And could she love where she feared?

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here

I feel always that I am a prisoner.

P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.

the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The

the countless unnamed jewels of Mars,

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

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

The lion was quite close to him now - but a few paces intervened - he crouched, and then, with a deafening roar, he sprang.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION ..................

The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.

Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea.

Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.

But life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

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

walled fields and low, rambling buildings, presenting

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.

If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.

Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!

[..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.

Those who know say that the most painful punishment that can be inflicted upon an adult male, short of injuring him, is a good, old fashioned shaking.

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan,

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

P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question.

It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.

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

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

Directly to the apartments of his old friend,

but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.

One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.

Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.

And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

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

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

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

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been.

willing prisoner

For an instant I was dumbfounded.

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.

Monuments of historic achievement

And yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;

how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.

There was no need for words - at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would,

I never knew my father, my mother was an ape

Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her

Dear old Woola," she said; "no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!

Why, I never did believe it,