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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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 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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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 see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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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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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 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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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