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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

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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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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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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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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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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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The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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