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What always was must always be.
One man's bane is another's bliss.
The printed page was like wine to me.
The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
No man can be convinced when he will not.
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?
I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.