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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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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
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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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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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 still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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