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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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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
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...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.
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Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps.
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You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.
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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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Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
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The silence was always the greates temptation.
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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 Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart.
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When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.
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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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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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They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's not be stupid.It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.
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I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.
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Competence was attractive.
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The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.
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A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.
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