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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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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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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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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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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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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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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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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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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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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
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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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