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Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

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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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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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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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Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

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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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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

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

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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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Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

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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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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

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

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