{"author":"Rex Stout","author_id":"Rex+Stout","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["detective","mystery"],"id":957,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"Wolfe still paid no attention to me. As a matter of fact, I didn't expect him to, since he was busy taking exercise. He had recently got the impression he weighed too much- which was about the same as if the Atlantic Ocean had decided it was too wet...","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["detective","humor","humour","mystery"],"id":5687,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous. ","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["craft","excellence","sherlock-holmes","writing"],"id":24922,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.' -- Nero Wolf in Death of a Dude.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["brain","emotion","think","words"],"id":108919,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"...If he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["marriage"],"id":167136,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["french","language","nero-wolfe","prejudices"],"id":197748,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about. ","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["books","ideas","nature","reading","thought"],"id":199092,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["fly","problems","soup"],"id":215879,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"I would appreciate it if they would call a halt on all their devoted efforts to find a way to abolish war or eliminate disease or run trains with atoms or extend the span of the human life to a couple of centuries, and everybody concentrate for a while on how to wake me up in the morning without my resenting it.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["archie-goodwin","mystery"],"id":226046,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"},{"text":"We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.","author":"Rex Stout","tags":["folly","foolishness","luck","merits","nero-wolfe","vainer","vainity","wisdom","wise"],"id":236383,"author_id":"Rex+Stout"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}