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The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22) QUOTES

The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22) QUOTES

1 " The sight of a pretty girl provokes in him an overwhelming reaction of appreciation and approval, and correlatively his acquisitive instinct, but he has never married. Why not? Because he knows that if he had a wife, his reaction to pretty girls, now pure and frank and free, would not only be intolerably adulterated but would also be under surveillance and subject to restriction by authority. So the governor always stops him short of disaster. "

― Rex Stout , The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22)

2 " As I stirred I was thinking that if she was hoping for any cooperation from Wolfe it was too bad she had asked for gin, since in his book all gin drinkers were barbarians. "

― Rex Stout , The Golden Spiders (Nero Wolfe, #22)