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Everything in a story should be credible.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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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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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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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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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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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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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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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
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