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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
Novelist
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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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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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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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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
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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 trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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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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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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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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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 still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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