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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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Noblesville
Indiana
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Rex Stout
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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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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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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 requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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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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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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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
Rex Stout
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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