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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.
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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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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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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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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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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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 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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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'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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