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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind,

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today
which is like the dreams of ghosts!

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

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

Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn.

By this axe I rule!

Up in the glade, and notch an arrow.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

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

He was no defensive fighter; even in the teeth of overwhelming odds he always carried the war to the enemy.

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

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

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.

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

No man can be convinced when he will not.

A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.

One man's bane is another's bliss.

There is always a way, if the desire be coupled with courage," answered the Cimmerian

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

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.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

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

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

The printed page was like wine to me.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

You black dog!" A red mist of fury swept across Conan's eyes. "Were I free I'd give you a broken back!

Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure.

Well, I like a good hater. But that can wait.

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

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

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.

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

What always was must always be.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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

In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.

The black went down like a felled tree, gushing blood,

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

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Men spoke of tribal war, of a gathering of vultures in the southeast, and a terrible leader who led his swiftly increasing hordes to victory.

I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.

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

It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation.

They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

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

When the oceans drown the world, women will take time for jealousy.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

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

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.

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

where did these people their food? i'm hungry.

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

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

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

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

the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough,

These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let

the skin was yellow, the eyes slightly slanted;

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

How can I wear the harness of toil
And sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever
The drums of Pictdom sound?

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

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

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