Rex Stout Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Rex Stout

  Rivals, Detectives, Foxes

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

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

  Rex Stout

  Never Quit, Spirals, Obvious

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• Opinions, from experts, cost money.

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  Experts, Cost, Opinion

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

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  Book, Stories, Letters

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

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• There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

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  Book, Writing, Two

  "Royal Decree: Conversations with Rex Stout". Book by John McAleer, p.3, 1983.

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

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  Summer, Sweet, Men

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