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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Rex Stout

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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
Indiana
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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 schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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