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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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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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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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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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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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