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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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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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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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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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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
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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.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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 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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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The printed page was like wine to me.
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