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It's the family you choose that counts.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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New York City
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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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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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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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
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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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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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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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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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