Rex Stout Quotes
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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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,…
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You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it…
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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…
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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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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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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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I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.
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I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
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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 unanswered…
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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…
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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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…
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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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To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
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The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my…
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