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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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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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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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