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- "All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; (en)
- I have carefully gone over, in my mind, the most powerful men—that is, in my opinion—in all of the world's literature and here is my list: Jack London, Leonid Andreyev, Omar Khayyam, Eugene O'Neill, William Shakespeare. All these men, and especially London and Khayyam, to my mind stand out so far above the rest of the world that comparison is futile, a waste of time. Reading these men and appreciating them makes a man feel life is not altogether useless. (en)
- The feast is over and the lamps expire." (en)
- Although he had his faults as a writer, Howard was a natural storyteller, whose narratives are unmatched for vivid, gripping, headlong action ... In fiction, the difference between a writer who is a natural storyteller and one who is not is like the difference between a boat that will float and one that will not. If the writer has this quality, we can forgive many other faults; if not, no other virtue can make up for the lack, any more than gleaming paint and sparkling brass on a boat make up for the fact that it will not float. (en)
- "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." (en)
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- —Robert E. Howard in a letter to Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright, Summer 1931. (en)
- —Howard's suicide note, found in his typewriter after the event or found in his wallet, as different sources state. The lines were taken from the poem "The House of Cæsar" by Viola Garvin. (en)
- —L. Sprague de Camp, Conan of the Isles, "Introduction", 1968 (en)
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