Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
Rex StoutMots clés chili nero-wolfe
Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
Rex StoutMore people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in "Blood Will Tell
Rex StoutWhen we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house there wasn't even hyphen between us.
Rex StoutAll there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.
Rex StoutYou can't base your actions on the theory that anyone you don't keep your eye on is apt to get killed.
Rex StoutThe more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.
Rex StoutMY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex StoutI have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe
Rex StoutA 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 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]
Mots clés sherlock-holmes characters novels realism presence dickens larger-than-life
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