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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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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?

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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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Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. 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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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

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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 reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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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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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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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

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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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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

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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.

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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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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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Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

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Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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