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I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Age: 75 †
Born: 1875
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: March 19
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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Though
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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
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I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.
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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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For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
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Beast? Jane murmured. Then God make me a beast for, man or beast, I am yours.
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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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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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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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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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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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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
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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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As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.
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We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
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