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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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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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There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
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Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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 more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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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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Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.
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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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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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