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
believe cutting sarcasm
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.
believe men animal
To say that a 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.
rivals detectives foxes
Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you...
funny work humorous
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
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The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote
lasts detectives firsts
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.
stories incredibles ends
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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Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
jewels guests hospitality
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
brain ifs
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
stories should credible
Everything in a story should be credible.
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A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.