“I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them,… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted,… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“How I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out.… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
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… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
