Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the … - James Sallis

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I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

James Sallis

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.

Carter, Crime Novels, Cuts, Cutting, Men, Remains

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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.

Cities, Hoist, Shadow, Side, Sight, Two

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

Bombs, Civilization, Come, Fall, Know, Two

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Able, Gonna, Laughing, Life, Messages, Time

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a right way, a wrong way, and my way. ' You want to see how that looks on the page, pick up any of Craig McDonald's novels. He's built him a nice little shack out there way off all the reg'lar roads, and he's brewing some fine, heady stuff. Leave your money under the rock and come back in an hour.

American, Eastern, Mcdonalds, Nice, Quirky, Rocks

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

Children, Nature, Outdoors, Physical, Preschool

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I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

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Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

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I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.

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The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

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It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

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