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Rex Stout

"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

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"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

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Akiroq Brost

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Akiroq Brost

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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Akiroq Brost

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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Akiroq Brost

"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

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Akiroq Brost

"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

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Akiroq Brost

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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Akiroq Brost

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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Akiroq Brost

"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

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Akiroq Brost

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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Rex Stout
"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."

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Rex Stout
"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

Woman

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Rex Stout
"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."

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Rex Stout
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."

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Rex Stout
"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

Thought

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Rex Stout
"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

Being

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Rex Stout
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Reflection

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Rex Stout
"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."

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Rex Stout
"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."

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Rex Stout
"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."

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