"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."

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Source : "Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard". Book by L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook (p. 156), 1983.

Robert E. Howard

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“I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.”
“Well, girls love Justin Bieber... But real women have Letogasms”
“I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.”
“People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.”
“It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.”

Source : "Talkin’ About a Revolution" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.
“Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the worldâ€™s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless . . . If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread, otherwise there will be no peace.”

Source : "World Food Day and the Challenge to Solve World Hunger and Protect the Planet" by John Bryant, Dr. Jason Clay, Lisa Moon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2016.
“Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.”
“They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...”

Source : "Logical Song". Song by Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies, March 1979.

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