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

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I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

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I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

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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.

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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

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

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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.

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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.

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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.

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

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Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

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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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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

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Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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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.

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I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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