"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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Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “Blue Belle”, p.267, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Andrew Vachss

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“The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.”
“I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”
“In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.”
“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”

Source : William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6
“Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother”
“What sparked my interest in the combat sports in general was my older brother. I guess older brothers are supposed to pick on their young brothers, but mine took it to a whole new level. He broke my collarbone, broke my rib, and knocked my teeth out.”

Source : Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.
“You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.”

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