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
Edgar Rice Burroughs quotes about
space monotonous
Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.
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.
love-you fighting house
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.
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.
hero believe stuff
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.
people may sense-of-humor
It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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?