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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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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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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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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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Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
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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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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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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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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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