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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
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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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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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The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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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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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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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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