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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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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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Information is the hardest currency.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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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 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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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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