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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
Andrew Vachss
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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
Love
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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