"The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books."

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Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.

Rex Stout

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“That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of goes through a couple of different changes and you don't really know what tracks are going to end up working out.”
“Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.”
“She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.”
“The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations" by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, (p. 251), 1994.
“It's the story that counts.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.”
“What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made â€œHeal the World.â€ He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called â€œHeal the Worldâ€? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.”
“You get old, you slow down.”

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