Rex Stout Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Women, Intellectual, Process

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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.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Oddities, Technique

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

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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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• One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.

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  Years, Numbers, President

  "Rex Stout, 85, Gives Clues on Good Writing". Israel Shenker interview, December 1, 1971.

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• 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.

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  Women, Experts, Female

  Rex Stout (2011). “GAMBIT”, p.81, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Fire, Making Love

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life magazine, p.132, December 10, 1965.

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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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• Opinions, from experts, cost money.

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  Experts, Cost, Opinion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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