Robert E. Howard Quotes

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• A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
• Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
• Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
• Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...
• For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can…
• Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of…
• I became a writer in spite of my environments.
• 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…
• But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in…
• I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
• 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…
• I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
• It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,
• 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…
• I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ...…
• 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…
• But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

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