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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
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Noblesville
Indiana
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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