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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All men are reasoning animals more than any other animal. They have a bigger brain and better brain. And we reason with our brain.
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A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.
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The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.
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Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.
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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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What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.
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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)