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One man's bane is another's bliss.

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Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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

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What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

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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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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.

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

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kinddealing with Texasis 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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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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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 became a writer in spite of my environments.

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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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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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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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My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.

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