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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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 accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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'll say one thing about an oil boom it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
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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 have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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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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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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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
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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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