181 Quotes by Robert E. Howard

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    I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

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    Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

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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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    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.

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    My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

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