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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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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Noblesville
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United
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America
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Food
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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
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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 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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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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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Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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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 man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
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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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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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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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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
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