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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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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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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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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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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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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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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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