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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.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
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I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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 trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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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 man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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