Rex Stout Quotes

• No hay nada más admirable que la entereza con la que los millonarios toleran las desventajas de su riqueza.

  Rex Stout

  Admiration, Wealth, Fortitude

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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• The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

  Rex Stout

  Libro, Años, Gente

  "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

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• I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

  Rex Stout

  Strong, Moral, Standards

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• Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

  Rex Stout

  Writing, Mind, Shadow

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• The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

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  Alarms, Trouble, Clock

  Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline

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• [A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

  Rex Stout

  Pleasant Surprises, Pessimist, Optimist

  Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline

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• Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

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  Broke, Disgrace, Catastrophe

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

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• The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

  Rex Stout

  Brain, Ifs

  "Might as Well Be Dead". Book by Rex Stout. Chapter 9, 1956.

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• No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

  Rex Stout

  Women, Taken, Pockets

  Rex Stout (2010). “Some Buried Caesar”, p.51, Crimeline

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• It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

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  Choices, World, Force

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.174, Bantam

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• All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

  Rex Stout

  Pensamiento, Decisión, Importante

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life Magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Todas las historias de Sherlock Holmes tienen al menos una escena maravillosa.

  Rex Stout

  Stories, Scene, Holmes

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• There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

  Rex Stout

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Death of a Doxy Ch. 9

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• The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

  Rex Stout

  Libro, Escritura, Dos

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• Sólo los tontos y los filósofos pierden el tiempo en lo incognoscible.

  Rex Stout

  Waste, Fool, Philosopher

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• There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

  Rex Stout

  Ignorance, Safe, Dangerous

  Rex Stout (2010). “Triple Jeopardy”, p.179, Bantam

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• Everything in a story should be credible.

  Rex Stout

  Stories, Should, Credible

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• No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

  Rex Stout

  Women, Mean, Men

  Rex Stout (2010). “The Mother Hunt”, p.142, Crimeline

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• A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.

  Rex Stout

  Ice, Safety, Skating

  Rex Stout (2013). “Too Many Cooks/Champagne for One”, p.128, Bantam

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• A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

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  Jewels, Guests, Hospitality

  Rex Stout (2010). “Death of a Dude”, p.65, Bantam

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• El chile es una de las grandes comidas campesinas. Es una de las pocas aportaciones de Estados Unidos a la cocina mundial. Se come con pan de maíz, cebolla dulce y crema agria, y contiene los cinco elementos considerados esenciales por los sabios de Oriente: dulce, ácido, salado, picante y amargo.

  Rex Stout

  Sweet, America, Essentials

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• I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

  Rex Stout

  Diversión, Lectura, Escritura

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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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  Equality, Trying, Would Be

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.131, Bantam

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• MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

  Rex Stout

  Mean, Rude

  Rex Stout (1966). “Nero wolfe: Homicide trinity”

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• A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Library, May

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam

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