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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.
Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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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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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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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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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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It's the family you choose that counts.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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