Andrew Vachss Quotes
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Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
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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 want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
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A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
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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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Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
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Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.
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Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
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Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
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Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
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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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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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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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Information is the hardest currency.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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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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A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
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It's the family you choose that counts.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
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