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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
Indiana
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Hemingway
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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.
Rex Stout
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
Rex Stout
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.
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
Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Everything in a story should be credible.
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
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
Rex Stout
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
Rex Stout