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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
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