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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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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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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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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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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
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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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