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All my important decisions ar...

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

Reks Staut

Of course the modern detectiv...

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

Reks Staut

Labels are for the things men...

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Reks Staut

I think the detective story i...

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.

Reks Staut

God made you and me, in certa...

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Reks Staut

What good is an obscenity tri...

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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Measure your minds height by ...

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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No man with any sense assumes...

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

Reks Staut

The constant petty behests of...

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Reks Staut

You can't dance cheerfully. D...

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

Reks Staut

Every book takes me from 35 t...

Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.

Reks Staut

I cannot agree that mountain ...

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

Reks Staut

Sometimes it's things that ta...

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.

Reks Staut

No man was ever taken to hell...

No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket.

Reks Staut

I will ride my luck on occasi...

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

Reks Staut

As a professional writer of d...

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

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A character who is thought-ou...

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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If I'm home with no chore at ...

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.

Reks Staut

To say that man is a reasonin...

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.

Reks Staut

Hemingway never grew out of a...

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

Reks Staut

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....