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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.
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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
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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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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