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A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40) QUOTES

A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40) QUOTES

1 " When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

2 " Okay, Dolly Brooke killed her because she was going to marry a quote nigger unquote, and how do we prove it?'
He frowned. 'I have told you not to use that word in my hearing.'
'I was merely quoting. It isn't - '
'Shut up. I mean the word 'unquote' and you know it. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

3 " The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

4 " Probably no man will ever corral truth, but Protagoras came closer to it than Plato. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

5 " With everybody. Lots of them don’t know it. Most of them up here wouldn’t say that word, nigger, but they’ve got that word in them. Everybody. It’s in them buried somewhere, but it’s not dead. Some of them don’t know they’ve got it and they wouldn’t believe it, but it’s there. That’s what I knew I’d have to face when I sat there on the bed last night and tried to decide what to do. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

6 " The Minister and the Choir Singer, "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)

7 " When I finished, explaining that I had let him go because I was human, as he had said, he held it for another minute and then opened his eyes.
He grunted. "You are not more human than I am. You are merely more susceptible, more sociable, and more vulnerable. "

― Rex Stout , A Right to Die (Nero Wolfe, #40)