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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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Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content"......Conan the Cimmerian.

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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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My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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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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No man can be convinced when he will not.

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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 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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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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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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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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Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

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

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He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

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

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