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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
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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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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
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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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