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Everything in a story should be credible.

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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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Everything
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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I understand the technique of eccentricity it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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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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