Bryce Courtenay Quotes

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• If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your…
• Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
• It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws…
• Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder,…
• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the…
• People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
• Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking…
• Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you…
• It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you…
• sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
• First with the head, then with the heart.
• Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they…
• But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
• Never take advice from a donkey.
• The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated.…
• When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.
• Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
• As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit…
• Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
• what is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or…

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