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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
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...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
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