Rex Stout Quotes - Page 4

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• Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

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  Women, Intellectual, Process

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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 suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

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  Believe, Effort, Important

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• I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

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  Thinking, Two, Stories

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• We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

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  Luck, Merit

  Rex Stout (2013). “The Rubber Band/The Red Box 2-in-1”, p.181, Bantam

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• As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

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  Guy, Helping, Unexpected

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.252, Crimeline

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• I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

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  Men, Oddities, Technique

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.63, Bantam

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• A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.

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  Real, Character, Bakers

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

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• If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

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  Party, Ego, President

  Rex Stout (2010). “Champagne for One”, p.3, Crimeline

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• A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

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  Broken, Schedules, Mere

  Rex Stout (2010). “Murder by the Book”, p.194, Bantam

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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 fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men

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  Drinking, Book, Sleep

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• Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

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  Never Quit, Spirals, Obvious

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• Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.

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  Rivals, Detectives, Foxes

  Rex Stout (2010). “Bad for Business”, p.34, Bantam

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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.

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  Opportunity, Satisfaction, Permit

  Rex Stout (2011). “FAMILY AFFAIR”, p.40, Crimeline

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