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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

Rex Stout

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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
Screenwriter
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Noblesville
Indiana
Reading
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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