I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they … - Robert E. Howard

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I mean my characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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Robert Ervin Howard (22 January 1906 – 11 June 1936) was an American writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s.

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Pen Names: Patrick Ervin • Sam Walser • Patrick Mac Conaire • Steve Costigan • Patrick Howard • John Taverel
Birth Name: Robert Ervin Howard
Alternative Names: REH • R. E. Howard • Robert Howard • Two-Gun Bob • Bob Howard
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Also, there was a rape over in the Cisco country. Man about forty and a girl about five. They didnt hang him. A guy can get away with nearly anything in this part of the country.
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