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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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