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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Rex Stout

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
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Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
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