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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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
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Noblesville
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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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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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No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
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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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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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 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.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.
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Dignities are like faces no two are the same.
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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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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 guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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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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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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