I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any … - Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around you, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Beauty, Foundation, Killed, Smiled, Smiles

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Dull, Followed, Has Beens, Judgment

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

Interesting, Story, Successful, Tell, Tried, Writing

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.

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If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

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