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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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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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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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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
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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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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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