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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 have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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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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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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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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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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