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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
Andrew Vachss
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Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
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Andrew Henry Vachss
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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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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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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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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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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