"The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue"
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"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."
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"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."
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"Death, only, renders hope futile."
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"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
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"For me, temperance is essential to good work."
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"A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart."
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"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."
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"I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible."
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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 and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life."
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"They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality."
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"Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand."
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"I write to escape ... to escape poverty."
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"In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers."
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"exsistance is not the cure it is the problem"
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"I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list."
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