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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.
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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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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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 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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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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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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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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