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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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 don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
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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.
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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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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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