A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. - Rex Stout
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
- Rex Stout
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
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…
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. - Rex Stout
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. - Rex Stout
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
[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.
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.
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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