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1. "How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound?" ~ Robert E. Howard
2. "Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars." ~ Robert E. Howard
3. "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 body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph." ~ Robert E. Howard
4. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. 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." ~ Robert E. Howard
5. "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 stand." ~ Robert E. Howard
6. "All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire." ~ Robert E. Howard
7. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
8. "The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!" ~ Robert E. Howard
9. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
10. "I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by." ~ Robert E. Howard
11. "By this axe I rule!" ~ Robert E. Howard
12. "I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat -- and frequently drop the hat himself." ~ Robert E. Howard
13. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
14. "I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content." ~ Robert E. Howard
15. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
16. "Gleaming shell of an outworn lie; fable of Right divine—You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine.The throne that I won by blood and sweat , by Crom, I will not sellFor promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell!" ~ Robert E. Howard
17. "When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?" ~ Robert E. Howard
18. "A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs." ~ Robert E. Howard
19. "Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!" ~ Robert E. Howard
20. "Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe." ~ Robert E. Howard
21. "A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions." ~ Robert E. Howard
22. "Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew." ~ Robert E. Howard
23. "Civilizirani ljudi neugodniji su od divljaka zato što znaju da mogu biti nepristojni, a da im zbog toga netko ne raspolovi glavu." ~ Robert E. Howard
24. "where did these people their food? i'm hungry." ~ Robert E. Howard
25. "Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation." ~ Robert E. Howard
26. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." ~ Robert E. Howard
27. "I became a writer in spite of my environments." ~ Robert E. Howard
28. "But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer." ~ Robert E. Howard
29. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
30. "I have not been a success, and probably never will be." ~ Robert E. Howard
31. "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 assailed by a feeling of unreality." ~ Robert E. Howard
32. "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 anybody advising writers how to write." ~ Robert E. Howard
33. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
34. "Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph" ~ Robert E. Howard
35. "Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen." ~ Robert E. Howard
36. "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." ~ Robert E. Howard
37. "MusingsThe little poets sing of little things:Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings;Lovers who kissed and then were made as one,And modest flowers waving in the sun.The mighty poets write in blood and tearsAnd agony that, flame-like, bites and sears.They reach their mad blind hands into the night,To plumb abysses dead to human sight;To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled,Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world.[click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]" ~ Robert E. Howard

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