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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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 have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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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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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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 have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
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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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