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

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
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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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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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 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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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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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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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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