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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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I'll say one thing about an oil boom it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.
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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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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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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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