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Robert E. Howard was an American author known for his fantasy and adventure novels. His works are renowned for their imaginative stories and unique characters, with the most famous being the Conan the Barbarian series. Howard's brief life produced a vast amount of short stories, which had a profound impact on the development of fantasy literature.

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Famous Robert E. Howard Quotes

“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.”

Ifs Knows Real Life Is Illusion Palate

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

Ifs Knows Real Life Is White Known Rich Arms Battle Illusion Red Let Me Hot Blue Blind Mad Wine Embrace Deny Flames Meat Blades Juice Palate Crimson Red Meat

Author:Robert E. Howard

“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.”

Knows Art Poor Appreciate Hollywood Profession Tin Buffoons

Author:Robert E. Howard

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

Knows Men Political Civilization Live Life Civilized Ironic Splits Savages Skulls Politeness Barbarians Impunity Courteous Splitting Uncivilized

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

“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.”

Knows Men Way Lying Dies Born Failing Sky Land Dog Kings Tongue Naked Crafts Subtle Guile

Book:The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack

Source: The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars.”

Knows World Years Age Stars Cities Son Ocean Blue Lays Shining Spread Kingdoms Drank Atlantis Conan

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“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.”

Source: 80+ ADVENTURE TALES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD - The Ultimate Action-Packed Collection: Historical Fantasy Classics, Crime Novels, Pirate Tales and more: Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, Kull the Conqueror and Bran Mak Morn Series