"The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels."

-- Rex Stout

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“Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.”
“Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.”
“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.”
“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”
“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.”
“As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.”

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