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Rex Stout Quotes
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to (Rex Stout Quotes)
Everything in a story should be credible (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
I don’t approve of open fires. You can’t think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. all you can do is stare at it (Rex Stout Quotes)
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man’s decisions are based on his rational process. That I don’t believe at all (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game (Rex Stout Quotes)
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for (Rex Stout Quotes)
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
To read of a detective’s daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted (Rex Stout Quotes)
The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 how to renounce it gracefully (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 his rational process. That I don’t believe at all (Rex Stout Quotes)
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket (Rex Stout Quotes)
I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn’t do what you said she would (Rex Stout Quotes)
No man with any sense assumes that a woman’s words mean to her exactly what they mean to him (Rex Stout Quotes)
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up (Rex Stout Quotes)
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 (Rex Stout Quotes)
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled (Rex Stout Quotes)