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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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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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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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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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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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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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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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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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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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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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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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