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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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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
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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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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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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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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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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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