"The more I see of what you call……" — Robert E. Howard
"The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!"
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43 Quotes by Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard has 43 quotes on this site.
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A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...
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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even…
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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the…
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even…
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But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just…
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I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
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I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I…
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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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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
— Lauren Bacall
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