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Even death has a heart.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Heart
Life
Inspire
Death
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It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this.
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They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more.
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.
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The conversation of bullets.
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Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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Better that we leave the paint behind, Hans told her, than ever forget the music.
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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.
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for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
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As she watched all of this, Liesel was certain that these were the poorest souls alive. That's what she wrote about them . . . Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths. Others pleaded for someone, anyone to step forward and catch them in their arms. No one did.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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I am hunted by humans.
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No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
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