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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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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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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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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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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
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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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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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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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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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