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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
Radio Personality
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Noblesville
Indiana
Credible
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Stories
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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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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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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 Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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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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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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 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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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 constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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