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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.

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
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
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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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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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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 trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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