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Robert E. Howard Quotes: We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.
         

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.


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



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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!



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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.



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.

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.



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But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.



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Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.



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.

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.





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