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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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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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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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 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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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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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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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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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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