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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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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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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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