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Andrew Vachss Inspirational Quotes (46)

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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, the father had told his adoring son. And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone. ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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