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
shrewd touches
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
billions inside joined minute particles womb
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.
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.
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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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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
people joy hitting
Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
damn great-writers
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.
women mean men
No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
men primitive-man labels
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
war men pickles
War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.
choices world force
It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
girl cat wild-life
I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.
party ego president
If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.
mistake responsibility assuming
I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.