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My life is triage.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
— Andrew Vachss
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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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
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Stealing to eat ain't criminal - stealing to be rich is.
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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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A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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My stuff isn't for everyone.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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Take some pleasure from telling him no. My guess was that she worked for the landlord, not
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Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
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I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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Lawyers for abused kids can challenge bad agency decisions because they can always bring a lawsuit. A volunteer cannot.#barahona
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I don't take advances for my books.
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While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.
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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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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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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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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
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Pervasive abuse and neglect of children is a greater danger to our species than cocaine and Communism combined.
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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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The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.
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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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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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I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores.
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
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I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can't run.
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Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry ... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.
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I have learned that a man who counts himself a shepherd is not worthy to be a member of a flock.
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In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. — Andrew Vachss
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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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
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Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.
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