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Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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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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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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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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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 more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
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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 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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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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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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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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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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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