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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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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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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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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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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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