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humans and humanity in desperate but not fruitless battles to overcome the forces of time and decay. All of Howard’s characters fit more or less into the heroic mode. John Jakes’ Brak the Barbarian and Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray
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“Funny things that come over you then. What did I think of? Death, and all that—and did the faces of dead gunmen bob up before me? No, just one thing shot through my mind. I skipped back to my childhood and seemed to be with Alice, of Alice in Wonderland fame, as she fell down the rabbit hole. Queer that—but true, just the same.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“The dead so soon grow cold.” Funny that I got that off. It was years since I had read Oscar Wilde or any of his wise cracks.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”
― Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
― Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
“Them that live by the gun should die by the gun, is good sound twentieth century gospel.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
“If I have any rule pertaining to my profession, that rule is: anything can happen today. Nothing is impossible.”
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
― The Snarl of the Beast: Race Williams #17
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