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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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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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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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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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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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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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