“Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs“He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs