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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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Sydney
NSW
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She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
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I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.
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The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.
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The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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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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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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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
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I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
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There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
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Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.
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They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.
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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
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Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
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I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
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Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.
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