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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
Author
Lawyer
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Men
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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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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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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