"Each of us has been designed for one……" — Bryce Courtenay
"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, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people."
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Bryce Courtenay
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43 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay
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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.…
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Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
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It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives,…
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. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon…
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People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that…
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Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the…
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It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if…
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sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency
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First with the head, then with the heart.
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Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite…
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But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
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