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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

Markus Zusak

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Underhanded
Caustic
Manner
Reputation
Nice
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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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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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Competence was attractive.
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Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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***A KEY WORD*** Imagined
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It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
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The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.
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