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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
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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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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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