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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Rex Stout

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
Novelist
Radio Personality
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Noblesville
Indiana
Hold
Brain

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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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