Рекс Стаут цитаты
Рекс Стаут
Дата рождения: 1. Декабрь 1886
Дата смерти: 27. Октябрь 1975
Другие имена: 雷克斯·史陶德, Ռեքս Ստաուտ, رکس استوت
Рекс Тодхантер Стаут — американский писатель, автор детективных романов, создатель цикла детективных произведений о Ниро Вульфе.
Цитаты Рекс Стаут
„We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.“
— Rex Stout, книга The Rubber Band
Источник: The Rubber Band
„[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.“
— Rex Stout, книга Fer-de-Lance
Источник: Fer-de-Lance
„Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.“
— Rex Stout, книга The Red Box
Источник: The Red Box
„I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.“
— Rex Stout, книга Might as Well Be Dead
Источник: Might as Well Be Dead
„Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.“
— Rex Stout, книга The Doorbell Rang
Источник: The Doorbell Rang
„Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.“
— Rex Stout, книга The Doorbell Rang
Источник: The Doorbell Rang
„A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.“
— Rex Stout, книга The League of Frightened Men
Источник: The League of Frightened Men
„One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.“
Nixon was re-elected in 1972, but Stout survived his August 1974 resignation from the Presidency by more than a year.
The New York Times
„Bosh. I find a rival — but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner — I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you…“
— Rex Stout, книга Bad for Business
Dol Bonner, to her employee Amy Duncan, chapter 2
Bad for Business
„There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.“
Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times
„I really mean what I say. A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.“
Rex Stout, page 244
Invitation to Learning
„There isn't a generation gap between you and me — there's two.“
Rex Stout to photographer Jill Krementz
Publishers Weekly
„My God you love to get them, and good Lord you hate to answer them.“
On letters from his readers
The New York Times