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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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 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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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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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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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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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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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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What always was must always be.
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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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'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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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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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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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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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