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Sleep Quotes by Rex Stout

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Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's…

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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…

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A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel…

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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the…

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To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on…

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“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”

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What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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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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“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked”

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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

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“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house…

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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is…

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