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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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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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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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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.
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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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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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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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