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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Lawyer
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Behavior
Emotion
Truth
Children
Love

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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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Information is the hardest currency.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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