Popular Quotes by Andrew Vachss

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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.

  Andrew Vachss#Faith 55

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• Most investigators dont even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes theyd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

  Andrew Vachss#Crime 33

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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.

  Andrew Vachss#Power 28

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

  Andrew Vachss#Strategy 27

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• Family is not just a biological word its an an operative one.

  Andrew Vachss#Family 26

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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

  Andrew Vachss#Morality 25

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• Thats Manhattan todayall the money goes up top while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now a sleightofhand to draw your eye from the truth as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

  Andrew Vachss#New york city 25

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• A free press doesnt mean its not a tame press.

  Andrew Vachss#Journalism 25

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• People who dont have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

  Andrew Vachss#Poverty 24

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• Stealing to eat aint criminalstealing to be rich is.

  Andrew Vachss#Greed 24

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