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My life is triage.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.
— Andrew Vachss
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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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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.
— Andrew Vachss
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
— Andrew Vachss
Pervasive abuse and neglect of children is a greater danger to our species than cocaine and Communism combined.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
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.
— Andrew Vachss
Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.
— Andrew Vachss
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
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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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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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