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“I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.”
-- Rex Stout

#Strong #Moral #Standards
“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

#Book #Years #People
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”
-- Rex Stout

#Pleasant Surprises #Pessimist #Optimist
“Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”
-- Rex Stout

#Wealth #Fortitude #Disadvantages
“Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.”
-- Rex Stout

#Writing #Mind #Shadow
“Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.”
-- Rex Stout

#Stories #Scene #Holmes
“The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.”
-- Rex Stout

#Brain
“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”
-- Rex Stout

#Keys #Glasses
“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.”
-- Rex Stout

#Party #Ego #President
“I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.”
-- Rex Stout

#Mistake #Responsibility #Assuming
“Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.”
-- Rex Stout

#Men #Labels #Primitive
“Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.”
-- Rex Stout

#Two #Faces #Dignity
“A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality”
-- Rex Stout

#Jewels #Guests #Hospitality
“Opinions, from experts, cost money.”
-- Rex Stout

#Experts #Cost #Opinion
“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

#Thinking #Fire #Making Love
“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”
-- Rex Stout

#Never Quit #Spirals #Obvious
“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

#Genius #Sparks #Tire
“What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.”
-- Rex Stout

#Tongue #Body #Submit
“MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.”
-- Rex Stout

#Mean #Rude
“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”
-- Rex Stout

#Men #Library #May
“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

#Guy #Unexpected #Helping
“I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)”
-- Rex Stout

#Trying #Want #Needs
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
-- Rex Stout

#Work #Humorous #Science
“The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.”
-- Rex Stout

#Book #Writing #Two
“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
-- Rex Stout

#Luck #Merit
“Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.”
-- Rex Stout

#Broke #Disgrace #Catastrophe
“In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.”
-- Rex Stout

#World #Coincidence #Expected
“There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.”
-- Rex Stout

#Ignorance #Safe #Dangerous
“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living Â— cook books and detective stories.”
-- Rex Stout

#Book #Writing #Two
“Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.”
-- Rex Stout

#Cooking #Kitchen #Female

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