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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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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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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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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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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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