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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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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He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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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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The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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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 worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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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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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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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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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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