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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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Robert Ervin Howard
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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