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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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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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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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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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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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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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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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