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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
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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 trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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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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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Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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 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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