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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 have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
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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 never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
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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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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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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 became a writer in spite of my environments.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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