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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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New York City
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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 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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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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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 are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
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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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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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