Quotes by Andrew Vachss

About Andrew Vachss:

Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths.
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In my world, people are plotting. You have no idea of all the people in business commit every day. Like it was nothing. Or there’s a set of special rules for them. Remember when Bush made that whole speech about ‘corporate ethics’ last year? Wh...

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Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

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

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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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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

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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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Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

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Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

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Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

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You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship’s cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they’ve been improving wit...

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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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That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

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A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster mo...

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[I] settled down with the and the , glad to be back with journalism where all murders are “brutal,” all prosecutors are “tough,” and all blondes are “attractive.” And any lawyer who cooperates with the reporter is “high-powered.

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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

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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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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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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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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Vachss
  • DescriptionLawyer, Writer
  • BornOctober 19, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Lawyer; Novelist
  • AwardsGrand Prix De Littérature Policière