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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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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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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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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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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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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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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
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