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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Rex Stout

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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
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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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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
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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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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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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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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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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
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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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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 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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