Rex Stout Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Rex Stout

  Equality, Trying, Would Be

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.131, Bantam

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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.

  Rex Stout

  Busy, Being Myself, Bother

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• MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

  Rex Stout

  Mean, Rude

  Rex Stout (1966). “Nero wolfe: Homicide trinity”

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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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  World, Coincidence, Expected

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.72, Crimeline

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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 for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

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  Stories, Lasts, Detectives

  "The New Invitation to Learning: The Essence of the Great Books of All Times". Book by Van Dore, p. 251, 1942.

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• Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

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  Men, Primitive Man, Labels

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Father Hunt”, p.110, Bantam

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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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  People, Joy, Buttons

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Father Hunt”, p.103, Bantam

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• I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

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  Trying, Needs, Nero

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• The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

  Rex Stout

  Keys, Glasses

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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 flat.

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  Genius, Sparks, Tire

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Doorbell Rang”, p.92, Bantam

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

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  Body, Tongue, Submit

  Rex Stout (2010). “Too Many Cooks”, p.79, Bantam

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• I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

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  Two, Answers, Assumption

  Rex Stout (2013). “The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1”, p.119, Bantam

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• There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

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  Damn, Great Writers

  "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout" by Robert van Gelder, The New York Times, September 21, 1941.

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• I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

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  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

  Rex Stout (2010). “Triple Jeopardy”, p.76, Bantam

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• The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

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  Brain, Stomach

  Rex Stout (2010). “Trio for Blunt Instruments”, p.159, Crimeline

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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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  Men, Thinking, Brain

  "Death of a Dude". Book by Rex Stout. Chapter 8, 1969.

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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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  Ideas, Depth, Shallow

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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 can't be cheerful.

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  Art, Gay, Dancing

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.27, Crimeline

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• What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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  Trials, Literature, Obscenity

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, Bantam

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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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  Cooking, Kitchen, Female

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• Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

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  Home, Want, Spots

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.103, Crimeline

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• I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

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  Girl, Cat, Wild Life

  rex stout (1955). “three witnesses”

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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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  Character, Two, Fiction

  "Talk with Rex Stout "by Lewis Nichols, The New York Times, November 15, 1953..

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• I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

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  Luck, Occasions, Picks

  Rex Stout (2010). “Might As Well Be Dead”, p.61, Bantam

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