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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.
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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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The printed page was like wine to me.
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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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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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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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