Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachssis an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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The sweetest thing I could say about my mother and father is that if I had the choice, I would have picked them. But I don't have any belief in biology or DNA as compelling conduct. The idea that we owe people something because we're related to them is bizarre. But the idea that we owe something because of their conduct towards us is legitimate.
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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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Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
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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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People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
hero people journalism
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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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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People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
thinking people journalism
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
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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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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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I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
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A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
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I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.