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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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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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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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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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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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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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 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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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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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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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