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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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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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 always was must always be.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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