"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."

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
“Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.”
“The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.”
“All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing away at the rapt groundlings with his blank verses, not less of a word-slinger and spellbinder than the Bard himself and therefore not to be considered too curiously on such matters as relevance, coherence, consistency, propriety, sanity, common decency.”
“For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.”
“Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.”
“The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be â€” this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.”

Source : Frag. B 2.2-6, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Timaeus I", 345,
“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.”

Source : The Reader's Digest, Volume 82, February 1963.

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