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“"Un guerriero può cambiare il suo metallo, ma non il cuore", si dice su Barsoom.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, p. 102

“E così, nel cuore di una città dove infuriava un conflitto selvaggio, piena di grida guerresche, mentre la morte e la distruzione mietevano dovunque un sanguinoso raccolto, Dejah Thoris, Principessa di Helium, vera figlia di Marte, Dio della Guerra, si promise in sposa a John Carter, gentiluomo della Virginia”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

A Princess of Mars

“Credo davvero che il modo di comportarsi di un uomo con una donna sia inversamente proporzionale al suo coraggio con gli individui del suo stesso sesso. I deboli e i citrulli sono spesso abilissimi nell'incantare le donne, mentre i guerrieri che affrontano impavidi mille pericoli si ritirano nell'ombra come bambini spaventati.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, p. 129

“Poche meraviglie del West suscitano più stupore delle bellezze di un paesaggio dell'Arizona illuminato dalla luna: lo splendore argenteo delle montagne in lontananza, gli strani chiaroscuri dei crinali e degli arroyo e i grotteschi particolari dei cactus, rigidi e meravigliosi, formano un dipinto allo stesso tempo incantato ed evocatore: come se quello fosse il primo sguardo su un mondo morto e dimenticato, tanto il suo aspetto è diverso da quello di ogni altro luogo sulla faccia della Terra.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, p. 25

“Sono molto vecchio, non so esattamente quanto. Forse ho cento anni, forse più; ma non posso dirlo perché non sono mai invecchiato come gli altri uomini e non ricordo neppure di avere avuto un'infanzia. Fin dove la mia memoria arriva, ricordo di essere sempre stato adulto: un uomo di circa trent'anni. Oggi il mio aspetto è identico a quello di quaranta e più anni fa, eppure sento che non posso continuare a vivere per sempre; che un giorno affronterò la vera morte dalla quale non c'è resurrezione. Non so perché dovrei temere la morte, io che sono morto due volte e sono sempre in vita, tuttavia, al pensiero, provo lo stesso orrore che provate voi, che non siete mai morti. Ed è proprio a causa del terrore della morte, credo, che sono così convinto che morirò sul serio, questa volta.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, Incipit, p. 11

“Ho fatto molte cose strane nella mia vita, cose che uomini più saggi di me non avrebbero osato, ma neppure nelle mie più accese fantasie avrei sognato di conquistare una Dejah Thoris… poiché mai avevo sognato che in tutto l'universo potesse esistere una donna come la principessa di Helium. Che tu sia una principessa non mi mette in soggezione, ma che tu sia tu, questo basta a farmi dubitare della mia sanità mentale nel chiederti, mia principessa, di essere mia.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, p. 218

“Mentre siedo qui, questa sera, nel mio studio affacciato sull'Hudson, già vent'anni sono passati da quando ho aperto per la prima volta i miei occhi su Marte.
Posso vederlo risplendere nel cielo dalla piccola finestra accanto alla mia scrivania, e questa notte sembra chiamarmi di nuovo, come non mi ha più chiamato da quella notte perduta nel passato, e mi sembra quasi di vedere, nel tremendo abisso dello spazio, una meravigliosa donna dai capelli neri in piedi nei giardini del palazzo, e accanto a lei un bambino che l'abbraccia mentre lei gli indica nel cielo il pianeta Terra, e ai loro piedi un'orrenda creatura dal cuore d'oro.
Credo che mi stiano aspettando, lassù, e qualcosa mi dice che lo saprò molto presto.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: Sotto le lune di Marte, Explicit, pp. 235-236

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Frasi in inglese

“I verily believe that a man’s way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Sotto le lune di Marte

Origine: A Princess of Mars (1917), Chapter 16

“Tarzan of the Apes was no sentimentalist. He knew nothing of the brotherhood of man. All things outside his own tribe were his deadly enemies, with the few exceptions of which Tantor, the elephant, was a marked example.
And he realized all this without malice or hatred. To kill was the law of the wild world he knew. Few were his primitive pleasures, but the greatest of these was to hunt and kill, and so he accorded to others the right to cherish the same desires as he, even though he himself might be the object of their hunt.
His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.
And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 10 : The Fear-Phantom

“DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 13 : His Own Kind

“On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 2 : The Savage Home

“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.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 10 : The Fear-Phantom

“Slowly he turned the pages, scanning the pictures and the text for a repetition of the combination B-O-Y. Presently he found it beneath a picture of another little ape and a strange animal which went upon four legs like the jackal and resembled him not a little. Beneath this picture the bugs appeared as: A BOY AND A DOG There they were, the three little bugs which always accompanied the little ape.
And so he progressed very, very slowly, for it was a hard and laborious task which he had set himself without knowing it — a task which might seem to you or me impossible — learning to read without having the slightest knowledge of letters or written language, or the faintest idea that such things existed.
He did not accomplish it in a day, or in a week, or in a month, or in a year; but slowly, very slowly, he learned after he had grasped the possibilities which lay in those little bugs, so that by the time he was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters which stood for every pictured figure in the little primer and in one or two of the picture books.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 7 : The Light of Knowledge

“In a cupboard filled with books he came across one with brightly colored pictures — it was a child's illustrated alphabet — A is for Archer Who shoots with a bow. B is for Boy, His first name is Joe. The pictures interested him greatly.
There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 6 : Jungle Battles

“With the success of my first story, l decided to make writing a career, though I was canny enough not to give up my job. But the job did not pay expenses and we had a recurrence of great poverty, sustained only by the thread of hope that I might make a living writing fiction. I cast about for a better job and landed one as a department manager for a business magazine. While I was working there, I wrote Tarzan of the Apes, evenings and holidays. I wrote it in longhand on the backs of old letterheads and odd pieces of paper. I did not think it was a very good story and I doubted if it would sell. But Bob Davis saw its possibilities for magazine publication and I got a check … this time, l think, for $700.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

How I Wrote the Tarzan Books (1929)

“In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and moldered remnants of what had once been clothing. Upon the bed lay a similar gruesome thing, but smaller, while in a tiny cradle near-by was a third, a wee mite of a skeleton.
To none of these evidences of a fearful tragedy of a long dead day did little Tarzan give but passing heed. His wild jungle life had inured him to the sight of dead and dying animals, and had he known that he was looking upon the remains of his own father and mother he would have been no more greatly moved.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 6 : Jungle Battles

“There were mothers and brothers and sisters, and aunts and cousins to express various opinions on the subject, but as to what they severally advised history is silent.
We know only that on a bright May morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover on their way to Africa.
A month later they arrived at Freetown where they chartered a small sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination.
And here John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice, his wife, vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 1 : Out to Sea

“I had been trying to find a publisher who would put some of my stuff into book form, but I met with no encouragement. Every well-known publisher in the United States turned down Tarzan of the Apes, including A. C. McClurg & Co., who finally issued it, my first story in book form.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

How I Wrote the Tarzan Books (1929)

“Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned fiercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 9 : Man and Man

“One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them.
"I am Tarzan," he cried. "I am a great killer. Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware."”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 7 : The Light of Knowledge

“His little face was tense in study, for he had partially grasped, in a hazy, nebulous way, the rudiments of a thought which was destined to prove the key and the solution to the puzzling problem of the strange little bugs.
In his hands was a primer opened at a picture of a little ape similar to himself, but covered, except for hands and face, with strange, colored fur, for such he thought the jacket and trousers to be. Beneath the picture were three little bugs — BOY.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 7 : The Light of Knowledge

“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.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro Tarzan of the Apes

Origine: Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Ch. 13 : His Own Kind

“But metaphor, however poetic, never slaked a dry throat.”

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Edgar Rice Burroughs libro The Land That Time Forgot

Origine: The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Chapter 4

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