I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
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.
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
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.
One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.
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.
The only difference between me and most people is that I'm perfectly aware that 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.
quote by Rex Stout
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
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