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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
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Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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I understand the technique of eccentricity it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.
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The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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