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My body seems a mere encumbrance to me an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
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 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 never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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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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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 printed page was like wine to me.
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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
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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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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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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
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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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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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