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I don't sign contracts for my books.

Andrew Vachss

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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 dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
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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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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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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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