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

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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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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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No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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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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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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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