Rex Stout
Rex Stout
Rex Todhunter Stoutwas an American writer noted for his detective fiction. His best-known characters are the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas between 1934 and 1975...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 December 1886
CountryUnited States of America
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
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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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I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
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The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking...
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Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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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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War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
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Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.