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
imagination invisible intangible
They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.
thinking differences world
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 world there.
civilization clothes lasts
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. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.
missing half naked
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 is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.
adventure men enough
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
love strange human-nature
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
reading people fiction
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.
mind statistics subconscious
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.
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?
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.
Death, only, renders hope futile.
foundation
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
strong statistics superstitions
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 the validity of our new-found convictions.