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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.

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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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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 man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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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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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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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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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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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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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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