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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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.
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It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.
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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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The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
