Rex Stout quotes - page 2

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. (Rex Stout)
Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear. View quote
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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. View quote
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My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them. View quote
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Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damn fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the ... View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I saw every performance Nijinsky danced in New York, and I see every baseball game I can get to. You watch a good second baseman digging for a badly thrown ball without letting his foot leave base and it's the same beautiful impossibility as a good pas de deux in Swan Lake. View quote
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A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Rex Stout)
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best. View quote
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Everything in a story should be credible. View quote
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. View quote
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. View quote
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it. View quote
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote. View quote
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I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. View quote
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