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
based believe man rational reasoning
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
admiration wealth fortitude
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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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...
experts cost opinion
Opinions, from experts, cost money.
income crime taxes
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.
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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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
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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.
shrewd touches
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.