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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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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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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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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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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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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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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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How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
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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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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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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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The printed page was like wine to me.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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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