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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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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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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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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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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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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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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 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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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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