Robert E. Howard Quotes - Page 4

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• One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is 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.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Texas, Order

  From a letter to August Derleth, March 1933.

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• I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

  Robert E. Howard

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, c. July 1933.

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• A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

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  Kingdoms, Defeat, Lost

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Conan the conqueror”, p.89, Robert E. Howard

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• Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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  Dog, Men, Race

  Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com

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• 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.

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  Men, Oil, People

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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

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  Art, Writing, Culture

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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• I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

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  Dream, Real, Yesterday

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.90, Del Rey

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• I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

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  Past, Cloaks, Worn

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

  Robert E. Howard

  Suicide, Paper, Wonder

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923.

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• It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

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  Men, Ill, Dusk

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Conan the conqueror”, p.99, Robert E. Howard

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• The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

  Robert E. Howard

  Moving, Insanity, Brain

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. November 1928.

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