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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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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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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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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The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

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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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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

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

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It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.

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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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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

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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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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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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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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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No man can be convinced when he will not.

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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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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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