Robert E. Howard Quotes
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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 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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Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.
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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.
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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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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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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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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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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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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
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I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
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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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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
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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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
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In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.
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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
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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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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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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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I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
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I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
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