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1 " 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 , The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe, #41)
2 " Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear. "
3 " for the first time in a popular novel I was reading about wrongdoing by the then-sacred institution, the FBI. I was reading open criticism and accusation of J. Edgar Hoover himself. I was reading it not from the typewriter of a young radical but from that of an old novelist. "
4 " handsome, "
5 " I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang "
6 " Patting a shoulder can be anything from an apology to a promise, and only the patter can say which. "
7 " thaumaturge "
8 " rendered "
9 " I had a classics professor at the University of Illinois who after giving a reading assignment said, with genuine emotion, “Oh, to be reading Boethius for the first time.” And so I say to you, “Oh, to be reading a Nero Wolfe mystery for the first time.” —Stuart M. Kaminsky "
10 " There are various reasons for keeping your mouth shut, but the best one is that you have nothing to say. "
