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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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Noblesville
Indiana
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More quotes by Rex Stout
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
Rex Stout
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
Rex Stout
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
Rex Stout
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
Rex Stout
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
Rex Stout
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
Rex Stout