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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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I promise you, there are people in America whose only problem with the Taliban is that they did it for the wrong god. Whether it's incest, rape, terrorism or Nazism, it's all the same thing—accumulating and abusing power.
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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
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My goal was not to raise consciousness, but to raise anger. Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger. If you want proof of how that works, just take a look at how New York State finally closed the hated (and virtually unknown) 'incest exception.
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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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I think that what drives the American public, which is like a huge, lumbering beast, is anger; and the other thing that drives it is self–interest. What I'm trying to do in my books is different from other people writing about child abuse. I'm not trying to engender sympathy so much as to say to the public, 'Today's victim is tomorrow's predator.' The things that you fear have a genesis, and the price of being safe in this world is early intervention. It costs you something to look away, not just in moral terms, but in practical terms.
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My position on pornography is quite simple. You can argue about Penthouse or Playboy or things of that ilk. But child pornography, a picture of a child engaged in a sexual act, is a photograph of a crime and you cannot argue about that. It is, per se, illegal, illicit and immoral. It is unfortunate that my work is taken up by people with whom I am not allied.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Andrew Vachss
Born:
October 19, 1942
Died:
November 23, 2021
(aged 79)
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