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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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 don't take advances 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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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