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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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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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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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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 have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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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