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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 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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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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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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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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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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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