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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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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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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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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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