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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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Writer
Noblesville
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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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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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 think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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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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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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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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