Rex Stout Quotes
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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The way I see it, I am lucky to be alive and well, and I only wish the same for others.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.
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I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
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I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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This is a unique opportunity for all shareholders of Comcast and Disney to create a new leader of the entertainment and communications industry,
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
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I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
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I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
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American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
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I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
