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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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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 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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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
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What always was must always be.
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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 only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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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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