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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.
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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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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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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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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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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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.
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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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