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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…

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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…
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…
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;…
I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet… — Michael Dirda
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land… — Robert E. Howard
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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