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I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.


Markus Wolf

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MARKUS ZUSAK I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled tha...
MARKUS ZUSAK A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been...
MARKUS ZUSAK Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes y...
OLIVER MARKUS You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
MARKUS ZUSAK They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appea...
MARKUS ZUSAK ...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, an...
MARKUS ZUSAK There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ...
MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
MARKUS ZUSAK It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Only about 3 percent of animal species are monogamous. A couple of penguins, some otters and a few o...
OLIVER MARKUS Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat w...
MARKUS ZUSAK Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that ma...
MARKUS ZUSAK We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is...
MARKUS ZUSAK The commitment and work ethic has been the biggest difference.
MARKUS NASLUND It was really the only choice for me and my family. We've had the best years of our lives here and I...
MARKUS NASLUND We didn't have the bounces tonight and it's as simple as that. It seemed like everything they tried ...
MARKUS NASLUND We have to be in control and not be nervous. When we were up 4-3, we kind of stopped playing and jus...
MARKUS NASLUND It does make a difference to finish off with a win. It's been a disappointing year for us. I don't t...
MARKUS NASLUND It's been there since halfway through the season. Yeah, it's been there all year and it's sad and di...
MARKUS NASLUND And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile...
MARKUS ZUSAK When you looked out my window you could see the whole city crouched under a blanket of car smog.
MARKUS ZUSAK Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the ba...
MARKUS ZUSAK Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the n...
MARKUS ZUSAK She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-s...
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