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

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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Behavior
Emotion
Truth
Children
Love

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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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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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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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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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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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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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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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