Andrew Vachss Short Quotes

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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

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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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I don't love kids. I hate their predators. It's a burning hatred I feel to this day.

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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

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Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

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If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

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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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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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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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Everything that's in [my] books comes out of what I've seen, or touched, or felt, or smelt, and if I had one wish it would be that the books were fiction.

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Anybody who has served in combat in any way understands that words are weapons. And I'm in a war. The war hasn't stopped. I've always used the books as a blunt instrument."

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