Andrew Vachss Quotes
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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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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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Information is the hardest currency.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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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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Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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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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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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 think people should be consumers of journalism.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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My goal was not to raise consciousness, but to raise anger. Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger. If you want proof of how that works, just take a look at how New York State finally closed the hated (and virtually unknown) 'incest exception.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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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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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.