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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 idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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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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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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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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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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 Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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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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