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

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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
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Caustic
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You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.
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To me the question is always this: if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, Your next book will never be published - would you still write it? If the answer is yes, the book is worth writing.
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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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If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
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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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I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.
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THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.
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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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She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.
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It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.
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She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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Competence was attractive.
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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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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
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Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
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You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.
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When death captures me, the boy vowed, he will feel my fist in his face. (31.26)
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