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Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.
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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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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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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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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 am hunted by humans.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
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Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.
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He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
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You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
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It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.
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I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.
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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
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As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing.
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