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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Age: 75 †
Born: 1875
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: March 19
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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
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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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Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
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For me, temperance is essential to good work.
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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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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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Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
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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 do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.
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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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Beast? Jane murmured. Then God make me a beast for, man or beast, I am yours.
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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
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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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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
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I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
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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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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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