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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.


Andrew Vachss

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ANDREW MARVELL Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
ANDREW JACKSON One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
ANDREW CARNEGIE You can cover a great deal of country in books.
ANDREW LANG Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would...
ANDREW LO When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, b...
ANDREW SHUE I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free wor...
ANDREW BREITBART As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, ...
ANDREW WEIL You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep...
ANDREW WEIL Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and nat...
ANDREW YOUNG 'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotiona...
ANDREW DAVIES Datelines are kind of an anachronism. It's a little bit of an affectation.
ANDREW ROSENTHAL I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means th...
ANDREW WILES Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are...
ANDREW O'HAGAN As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
ANDREW GARFIELD The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness,...
ANDREW CARNEGIE When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've t...
ANDREW YOUNG The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.
ANDREW WEIL Today I am announcing my support for Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States of Amer...
JOE ANDREW I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S...
ANDREW LUCK I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acce...
ANDREW DOMINIK American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees...
ANDREW WEIL