Rex Stout Quotes

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• Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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  Admiration, Wealth, Fortitude

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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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 books.

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  Book, Years, People

  "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

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• I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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  Strong, Moral, Standards

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• Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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  Writing, Mind, Shadow

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• [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

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  Pleasant Surprises, Pessimist, Optimist

  Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline

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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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  Alarms, Trouble, Clock

  Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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• Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

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  Broke, Disgrace, Catastrophe

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

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

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  Brain, Ifs

  "Might as Well Be Dead". Book by Rex Stout. Chapter 9, 1956.

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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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  Choices, World, Force

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.174, Bantam

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• No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

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  Women, Taken, Pockets

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.51, Crimeline

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• Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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  Stories, Scene, Holmes

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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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  Thinking, Decision, Important

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life Magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

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  Book, Writing, Two

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• Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

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  Waste, Fool, Philosopher

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• There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

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  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Death of a Doxy Ch. 9

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• I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

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  Fun, Reading, Writing

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• No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

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  Women, Mean, Men

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Mother Hunt”, p.142, Crimeline

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• Everything in a story should be credible.

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  Stories, Should, Credible

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• There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

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  Ignorance, Safe, Dangerous

  Rex Stout (2010). “Triple Jeopardy”, p.179, Bantam

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

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  Ice, Safety, Skating

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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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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  Sweet, America, Essentials

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• A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

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  Jewels, Guests, Hospitality

  Rex Stout (2010). “Death of a Dude”, p.65, Bantam

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• A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

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  Men, Library, May

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam

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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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  Mistake, Responsibility, Assuming

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• Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

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  Believe, Cutting, Sarcasm

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