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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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America
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Food
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Book
Wife
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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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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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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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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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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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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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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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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 only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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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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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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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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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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