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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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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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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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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.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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