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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
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 not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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The printed page was like wine to me.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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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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Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
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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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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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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
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