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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
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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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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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