"No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything."

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One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

— Robert E. Howard