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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 accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
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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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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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Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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One man's bane is another's bliss.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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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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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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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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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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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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