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I don't take advances for my books.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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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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If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
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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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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 don't sign contracts for my books.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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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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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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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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