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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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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We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
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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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A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
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It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
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