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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
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
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