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
brain stomach
The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.
latter distasteful
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
literature trials obscenity
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
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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.
summer sweet men
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.
equality trying would-be
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
damn great-writers
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.
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.
women mean men
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
women done experts
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.
women intellectual process
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
women taken tickets
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.
mistake responsibility assuming
I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
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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.