Frasi di Robert E. Howard
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Robert Ervin Howard è stato uno scrittore statunitense.

Viene considerato uno dei padri della moderna heroic fantasy, nonché uno dei massimi esponenti della letteratura dell'orrore e grande interprete del romanzo d'avventura.

Il suo personaggio di maggior successo è Conan il barbaro, che appare in un ciclo di ventidue opere tra racconti e romanzi. Sulla vita di Howard e sulla sua breve relazione con Novalyne Price Ellis il regista Dan Ireland ha tratto, nel 1996, il film Il mondo intero, con Vincent D'Onofrio nel ruolo dello scrittore. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Gennaio 1906 – 11. Giugno 1936  •  Altri nomi رابرت هاوارد
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Robert E. Howard: Frasi in inglese

“I'm not going to vote. I won't vote for a Catholic and I won't vote for a damned Republican. Maybe I've said that before. My ancestors were all Catholic and not very far back. And I have reason to hate the church.
I feel a curious kinship, though, with the Middle Ages. I have been more successful in selling tales laid in that period of time, than in any other. Truth it was an epoch for strange writers. Witches and werewolves, alchemists and necromancers, haunted the brains of those strange savage people, barbaric children that they were, and the only thing which was never believed was the truth. Those sons of the old pagan tribes were wrought upon by priest and monk, and they brought all their demons from their mythology and accepted all the demons of the new creed also, turning their old gods into devils. The slight knowledge which filtered through the monastaries from the ancient sources of decayed Greece and fallen Rome, was so distorted and perverted that by the time it reached the people, it resembled some monstrous legend. And the vague minded savages further garbed it in heathen garments. Oh, a brave time, by Satan! Any smooth rogue could swindle his way through life, as he can today, but then there was pageantry and high illusion and vanity, and the beloved tinsel of glory without which life is not worth living.
I hate the devotees of great wealth but I enjoy seeing the splendor that wealth can buy. And if I were wealthy, I'd live in a place with marble walls and marble floors, lapis lazulis ceilings and cloth-of-gold and I would have silver fountains in the courts, flinging an everlasting sheen of sparkling water in the air. Soft low music should breathe forever through the rooms and slim tigerish girls should glide through on softly falling feet, serving all the wants of me and my guests; girls with white bare limbs like molten gold and soft dreamy eyes.”

Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Harold Preece (received October 20, 1928)
Letters

“A great poet is greater than any king.”

Robert E. Howard

"By This Axe I Rule!" (1967)

“Fool that I was to trust a Frenchman!”

Robert E. Howard

"Rattle of Bones" (1929)

“Come, my friend, let us cuss things in general.”

Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (January 14, 1926)
Letters

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