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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I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.
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I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
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Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
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God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.
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What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
