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Robert E Howard Inspirational Quotes (53)

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
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The printed page was like wine to me.
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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.
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Money and muscle, that's what I want to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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