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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 never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
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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.
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The printed page was like wine to me.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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