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Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Find
Robs
Mind
Patience
Unless
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Read
Learn
Away
Anything

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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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an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.
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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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But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
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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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It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of 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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Even death has a heart.
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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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The night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.
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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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I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.
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It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.
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Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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