Andrew Vachss Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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I love science fiction.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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It is utterly inappropriate for the president Donald Trump to be weighing in the design and acquisitions process of carrier ships at this level. Had a Democratic president done this kind of micromanagement, all the more so in public, Republican defense wonks would have been apoplectic. Instead ... crickets.
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I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
