Conan the Barbarian

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Conan the Barbarian is a character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s. It is also the title of a 1982 film based on the Howard character.

1 Quotes
- 1.1 Robert E. Howard writings
- 1.2 1982 film
2 External links

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Quotes

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Robert E. Howard writings

"You cannot escape me!" he roared. "Lead me into a trap and I'll pile the heads of your kinsmen at your feet! Hide from me and I'll tear apart the mountains to find you! I'll follow you to hell!"

Conan did not hesitate, nor did he even glance toward the chest that held the wealth of an epoch. With a quickness that would have shamed the spring of a hungry jaguar, he swooped, grasped the girl's arm just as her fingers slipped from the smooth stone, and snatched her up on the span with one explosive heave.

"Keep back!" ordered Shah Amurath, watching him narrowly. "Ha!" It was like the bark of a timber wolf. "Shah Amurath, the great Lord of Akif! Oh, damn you, how I love the sight of you - you, who fed my comrades to the vultures, who tore them between wild horses, blinded and maimed and mutilated them - at, you dog, you filthy dog!" His voice rose to a maddened scream, and he charged.

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1982 film

Directed by: John Milius

Written by: Robert E. Howard, John Milius, and Oliver Stone

Tagline: "Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King."

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Conan's Father

For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust. [points to his sword]

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Conan

Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you Crom, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!
[to Subotai] Crom laughs at your four winds.

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Others

The Wizard: Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

King Osric: There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Valeria: Do you want to live forever?

Valeria: All my life I've been alone. Many times I've faced death with no one to know. I would look into the huts and the tents of others in the coldest dark and I would see figures holding each other in the night. But I always passed by.

Valeria: All the gods, they cannot sever us. If I were dead and you were still fighting for life, I'd come back from the darkness. Back from the pit of hell to fight at your side.

Subotai: He is Conan, Cimmerian, he won't cry, so I cry for him.

Thulsa Doom: My child, you have come to me my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son.

Subotai: Food! Give me food! So I have strength, when the wolves come. Let me die not in hunger, but in combat!

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Dialog

Khitan General: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life?

Khitan Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!

Khitan General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Khitan General: That is good.

Conan: The riddle... of steel.

Thulsa Doom: Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks; that beautiful girl. Come to me my child...

[The acolyte plunges from the rock to her death.]

Thulsa Doom: That is strength boy! That is power! The strength and power of flesh! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? Look at the strength in your body, the desire in your heart, I gave you this! Such a waste. Contemplate this on the tree of woe. Crucify him!

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