Rex Stout Quotes
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.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships.
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All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was born into and it's my duty. . . . Wanting is not the right word. But those stories about me not wanting to be king are all wrong.
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
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I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
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She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.
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In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
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It's unfortunate and unexpected. It's not a routine occurrence. That's why it's shocking.
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I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
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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.
