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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There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person.
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Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.