Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughswas an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 September 1875
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
foundation statistics theory
Even theories must have foundations.
brain statistics logic
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
children men desire
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?
heart warrior may
A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.
weather years world
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.
love-you believe forever
I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.
men animal clothes
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 the hideous things
fall long way
We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.
writing poverty
I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
believe
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
wickedness criminals weak
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
virtue crime mayhem
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
stories framing
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
moon light our-world
The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own aspect--its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts ... The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world.