I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
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
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
. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only … - Bryce Courtenay
. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only …
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
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.
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorit… - Bryce Courtenay
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorit…
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot … - Bryce Courtenay
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot …
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 will master it. … - Bryce Courtenay
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 will master it. …
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways. - Bryce Courtenay
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. - Bryce Courtenay
Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you… - Bryce Courtenay
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you…
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