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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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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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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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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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