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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.
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 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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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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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
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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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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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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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