“What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.”

—  Rex Stout

Life, "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I."

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American writer 1886–1975

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