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Rex Stout Quotes

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975

Topics

Key Better Glass Anything Than Ever

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Live People Society Wrong Living

We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.

Free Need Free Press Must Press

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Life Nature Beauty Daily Sea Death

That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing any of my teeth; then, I ended up losing them in a car accident in New York when I was riding in a taxi. So, I end up losing my teeth, but not in the glamorous fashion I envisioned.

Car Joy New York Losing Fashion End

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Personality People Thought Matter

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Home You Place Go Take Where

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Age Old Age People Youth Reach Done

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

Rudyard Kipling

History Never Forgotten Would Taught

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

Dick Van Patten

Job Go Old Years Used Started

Anyone who thinks hunters are just 'bloodthirsty morons' hasn't looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you're sure to learn hunting isn't about killing.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Wait Listening Cold Woods Learn You

In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

World Charity American Fairness See

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

School New York City High School New

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