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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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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 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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I don't take advances for my books.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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