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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
Rex Stout
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
Rex Stout
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Opinions, from experts, cost money.
Rex Stout
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
Rex Stout
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
Rex Stout
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.
Rex Stout
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Rex Stout
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Rex Stout
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
Rex Stout
MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
Rex Stout