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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 still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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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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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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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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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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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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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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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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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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