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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
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Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
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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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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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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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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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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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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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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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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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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