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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
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