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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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New York City
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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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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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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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