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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
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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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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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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 have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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