Rex Stout Quotes
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
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When will we learn that we can't allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
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'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
