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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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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane.

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The printed page was like wine to me.

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I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.

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

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

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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

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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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What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.

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While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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