Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

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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…
• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
• 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,…
• I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
• Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
• Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
• 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.…
• For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed…
• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction…
• 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…
• Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
• Even theories must have foundations.
• Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.
• 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…
• When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
• Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
• Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing…
• For me, temperance is essential to good work.
• I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
• I could write stories just as rotten.

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