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I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end. — Bryce Courtenay

The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature. — Bryce Courtenay

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream. — Bryce Courtenay

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be. — Bryce Courtenay

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts! — Bryce Courtenay

First with the head, then with the heart — Bryce Courtenay

Besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. — Bryce Courtenay

You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural. — Bryce Courtenay

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man. — Bryce Courtenay

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state. — Bryce Courtenay

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. — Bryce Courtenay

When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit. — Bryce Courtenay

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents. — Bryce Courtenay

It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan. — Bryce Courtenay

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller. — Bryce Courtenay

Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them — Bryce Courtenay

You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart — Bryce Courtenay

Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start. — Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth. — Bryce Courtenay

Never take advice from a donkey. — Bryce Courtenay

Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to. — Bryce Courtenay

Generosity overpowers greed. — Bryce Courtenay

A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger. — Bryce Courtenay

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway. — Bryce Courtenay

My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men — Bryce Courtenay

You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game. — Bryce Courtenay

Then I felt like having a piss and I did that — Bryce Courtenay

I Shall Never Surrender. — Bryce Courtenay

Around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some — Bryce Courtenay

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something. — Bryce Courtenay

The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving. — Bryce Courtenay

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. — Bryce Courtenay

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope. — Bryce Courtenay

First with the head and then with the heart. — Bryce Courtenay

Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad. — Bryce Courtenay

Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do. — Bryce Courtenay

The imagination is always the best torturer. — Bryce Courtenay

is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful. — Bryce Courtenay

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways. — Bryce Courtenay

In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed. — Bryce Courtenay

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author. — Bryce Courtenay

Without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins. — Bryce Courtenay

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die. — Bryce Courtenay

I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps. — Bryce Courtenay

A sentiment, coming from it is not to be trusted. — Bryce Courtenay

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. — Bryce Courtenay

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven. — Bryce Courtenay

Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe. — Bryce Courtenay

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers". — Bryce Courtenay

Always listen to yourself ... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. — Bryce Courtenay

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them. — Bryce Courtenay

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win. — Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan. — Bryce Courtenay

Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency — Bryce Courtenay