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Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

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If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Cities, Poke, Snakes, World

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.

Believe, Fight, Fighting, Frequently, Hat, Oklahomans

Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.

Enemy, Hand, Hands, Man, Men, Thing

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

Coming, Familiar, Mountain, Old, Sea, Song

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.

Real, Life Is, Illusion, Love, Content

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Live Life, Men, Savages, Skulls

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.

Kingdoms, Lay, Ocean, Son, Spread, Stars

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

Irish, Lick, Peachy, Rome

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Art, Culture, Education, Virtue, Writing

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.

Awe, Brutish, Certain, Naked, Soul, Women

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Civilization, Customs, Maze, Mazes, Network

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

Dream, Dreams, Ghost, Ghosts, Life, Spun

One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

Order, Spilled, Texas, Texasis, Voiced, Writing

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

Content, Life, Live, Love, Palate, Slay

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.

Character, Civilization, Hate, Real, Rough

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.

Men, Oil, People, Percentage, Professional

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

Civilization, Evil, Natural, Inevitable, Prepared

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

Come, Death, Lonely, Midnight, Place, Pleasant

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.

Cogs, Giving, Men, Reality, Together

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

Born, Invader, Silent, Sound, Universe

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