{"author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs","total_quotes":40,"quotes":[{"text":"If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["fighting","pride","vocation"],"id":2259,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["life","science-fiction"],"id":35128,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["a-princess-of-mars","dejah-thoris","edgar-rice-burroughs","falling-in-love","in-love","john-carter","love","love","romance","romantic","romantic"],"id":52253,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["ability","fighter","pride","vocation"],"id":61236,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["adventure","books","learning","literacy","reading"],"id":77551,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?' demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm.'Men have died for less than that, ancient one,' E-Thas reminded him.'I am safe,' retorted I-Gos, 'for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["age","courage","cowardice","retort","sarcasm","threat"],"id":80226,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"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.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["fiction","literature"],"id":83756,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"What are you Tarzan?' he asked aloud. 'An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes do - leave one of your kind in the jungle to die if it suited your whim to go elsewhere.If you are a man, you will return to protect your kind. You will not run away from one of your own people, because one has run away from you.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["adventure","conscience","humanity"],"id":84521,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"So glorious does love transfigure its object'~Tarzan.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["love"],"id":98809,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"},{"text":"You didn't find any trace of her?' asked d'Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. 'None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here –-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.","author":"Edgar Rice Burroughs","tags":["barbarian","civilization","finding-yourself"],"id":100213,"author_id":"Edgar+Rice+Burroughs"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}