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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.

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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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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