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

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What always was must always be.

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

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

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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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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

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

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In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of clouds and icy winds, to wander cheerlessly throughout eternity.

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Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.

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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 printed page was like wine to me.

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

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Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

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

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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

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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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Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

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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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I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.

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