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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
Takes
Read
Learn
Away
Anything
Find
Robs
Mind
Patience
Unless

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I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
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Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
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Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.
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Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
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Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.
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Even death has a heart.
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The bombs were coming-and so was I.
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His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come. Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.
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I only know that all of those people would have sensed me that night, excluding the youngest of the children. I was the suggestion. I was the advice, my imagined feet walking into the kitchen and down the corridor.
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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 beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
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