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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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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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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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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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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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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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