Andrew Vachss Quotes
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we live.
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Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
