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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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I understand the technique of eccentricity it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
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