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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.
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 kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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