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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
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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 schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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