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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
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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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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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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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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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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.
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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 have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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