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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.
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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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
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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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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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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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What always was must always be.
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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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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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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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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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