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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1 September 1875 – 19 March 1950) was an American author of science-fiction and adventure stories, most famous for the creation of the jungle-born hero Tarzan.
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“Smiles are the foundation of beauty.”
“Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.”
“The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom.”
“Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.”
“She was a dear girl and a stanch and true comrade—more like a man than a woman.”
“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.”
“Thus Bradley reasoned—thus most of us reason; not by what might be possible; but by what has fallen within the range of our experience.”
“I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.”
“This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn’t explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.”
“She was quite the most wonderful animal that I have ever looked upon, and what few of her charms her apparel hid, it quite effectively succeeded in accentuating.”
“I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.”
“Tarzan of the Apes knew that they had found the body of his victim, but that interested him far less than the fact that no one remained in the village to prevent his taking a supply of the arrows which lay below him.”
“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.”
“Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.”
“Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from the foliage of a nearby tree. Tarzan had seen the surprise caused by his notice, and while he could understand nothing of the spoken language of these strange people their gestures and facial expressions told him much.”
“For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.”
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Edgar Rice Burroughs on Jungle 2 quotes
“I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter. In all the jungle there is none so great.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs on Smiling
“Smiles are the foundation of beauty.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs on Heart
Edgar Rice Burroughs on Cannibalism in literature
“Tublat, whom he had hated and who had hated him, he had killed in a fair fight, and yet never had the thought of eating Tublat's flesh entered his head. It would have been as revolting to him as is cannibalism to us.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs on Pineapples
“The march was but a leisurely search for food. Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects. The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Once old Sabor, crossing their path, sent them scurrying to the safety of the higher branches, for if she respected their number and their sharp fangs, they on their part held her cruel and mighty ferocity in equal esteem. Upon a low-hanging branch sat Tarzan directly above the majestic, supple body as it forged silently through the thick jungle. He hurled a pineapple at the ancient enemy of his people. The great beast stopped and, turning, eyed the taunting figure above her.”
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Edgar Rice Burroughs on H. Rider Haggard
“To Mr. Kipling as to Mr. Haggard I owe a debt of gratitude for having stimulated my youthful imagination and this I gladly acknowledge, but Mr. Wells I have never read and consequently his stories of Mars could not have influenced me in any way.”
About Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1 September 1875 – 19 March 1950) was an American author of science-fiction and adventure stories, most famous for the creation of the jungle-born hero Tarzan.