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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Lawyer
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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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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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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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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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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