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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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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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 became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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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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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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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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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.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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