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
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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...
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.
joy detectives finesse
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
games detectives balls
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
shrewd touches
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
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Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
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War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.