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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.
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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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
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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 shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?
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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
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