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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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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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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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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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