There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.
[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…
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.
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards. - Rex Stout
I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
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
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.
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene. - Rex Stout
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
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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