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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.
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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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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 accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.
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