"When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?"

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Source : Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 1923.

Robert E. Howard

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“Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.”
“Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ***** is at!”
“I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!”
“The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.”
“The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.”
“Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it”
“My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...”
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

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