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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Exsistance is not the cure it is the problem
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
pint of champagne.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
My civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
love denied a childish heart that yearns for love. Little
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I had had to discard my rifle
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Unfailing courtesy and willingness to be of service.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Teach me to speak the language of men.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
For an instant I was dumbfounded.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
willing prisoner
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be - our
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
But life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
walled fields and low, rambling buildings, presenting
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I feel always that I am a prisoner.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Golf is a mental disorder.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I never knew my father, my mother was an ape
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
And could she love where she feared?
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Monuments of historic achievement
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
the countless unnamed jewels of Mars,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
— Michael Moorcock
I should at least die as I had lived - fighting.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dear old Woola," she said; "no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Why, I never did believe it,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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[..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
And yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever;
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
It is a strange tale and utterly Barsoomian.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Directly to the apartments of his old friend,
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs