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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

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom 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

The section of Aramaeans that pressed its way from the Euphrates southward, and drove the Edomites out of Petra, was afterwards known as Nabataean. — John Courtenay James

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

We die every day," Kit said. "It's called being human. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me. — Tom Courtenay

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play. — Tom Courtenay

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore. — Tom Courtenay

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

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side. — Martin Freeman

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

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

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

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

Never take advice from a donkey. — Bryce Courtenay

Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

She was herself, the original. Everyone else was just a copy. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know. — Tom 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

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

That opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

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

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

No one owns you, I know that. No one owns me. No one owns anyone. We just get to borrow each for a while. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

The imagination is always the best torturer. — Bryce Courtenay

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

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

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

But where Moabite differed from Hebrew the difference pointed to Phoenician on the one side and to Arabic on the other, rather than Aramaic. — John Courtenay James

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

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

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

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller. — 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

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest. — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

The answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes — Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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

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