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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.
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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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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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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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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
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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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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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