What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. - Rex Stout
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
- Rex Stout
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. - Rex Stout
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, p… - Rex Stout
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, p…
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. - Rex Stout
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. - Rex Stout
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off - Rex Stout
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. - Rex Stout
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. - Rex Stout
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. - Rex Stout
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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