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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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
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Chicago
Illinois
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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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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Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?
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Beast? Jane murmured. Then God make me a beast for, man or beast, I am yours.
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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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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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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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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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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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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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A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
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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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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
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