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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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Noblesville
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Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.
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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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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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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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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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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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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 requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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 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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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