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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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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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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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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