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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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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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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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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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A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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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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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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 only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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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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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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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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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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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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