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Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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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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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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 more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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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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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
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