“Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.” MenHardNovelCuttingCrimeRemainsEdgesBonesRedemptionPortraitsCarterStumblingCrime Novels Author:James Sallis
“The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.” MenBookGamesWrittenDangerousStrangeHe ManRemainsActiveDrySheerIncompleteIngenuityParticipantsEspionageEccentricityWartime Author:Ben Macintyre
“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.” KnowsMenWantNeedsMayMadeStillsUseDesireFeltWonderIncreaseInstrumentsRemainsPossessionLondonEvery ManFamiliarEnjoymentShopsImperfectConsumerismOverconsumption Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler
“The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.” MenWellsStatesPoliticsCommonEnemyRemainsDecentIndustriousDecent ManCommon Enemy Author:H. L. Mencken
“Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?” IfsThinkingMenToo MuchRemainsSaying Too Much Author:Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
“[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.” MenStillsStoriesBeliefSimpleTeachingHe ManUltimateBasesRemainsChristmasSermonsGood WillFree ManSermon On The Mount Author:Hal Borland