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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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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

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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."

Decision-Making

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

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

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

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Rex Stout
"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."

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Rex Stout
"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."

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