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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
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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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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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The printed page was like wine to me.
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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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