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I think people should be consumers of journalism.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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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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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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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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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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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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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
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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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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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