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The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
Rex Stout
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Rex Stout
Age: 88 †
Born: 1886
Born: December 1
Died: 1975
Died: October 27
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
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There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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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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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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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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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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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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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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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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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Opinions, from experts, cost money.
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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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