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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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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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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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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
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What always was must always be.
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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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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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 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 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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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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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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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