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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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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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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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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 still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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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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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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