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Rex Stout Quotes: Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.
         

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.


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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.



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Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.



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The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.



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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.



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