Robert E. Howard Quotes, Wall Quotes, Fighting Quotes

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

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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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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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There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

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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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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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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 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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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

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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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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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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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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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