"Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is……" — Bryce Courtenay
"Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been"
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Bryce Courtenay
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43 Quotes by Bryce Courtenay
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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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