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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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Andrew Henry Vachss
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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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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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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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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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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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Information is the hardest currency.
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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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