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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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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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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 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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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
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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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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