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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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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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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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Money and muscle, that's what I want to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
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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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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What always was must always be.
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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
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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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