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Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.”

51. “I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.”

52. “It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I’m going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”

53. “I’m going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “First with the head, and then with the heart, that way small can beat big.”

54. “First with the head, and then with the heart, that way small can beat big.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Cleverness is a false presumption’, Doc had explained, ’it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.”

55. “Cleverness is a false presumption’, Doc had explained, ’it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.”

56. “I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.”

57. “I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.”

58. “As a small child I had discovered that only two places are available to those who wish to remain concealed. The choices are to be a nonentity or an exception. You either disappear into a plebeian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers”.”

59. “He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers”.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.”

60. “My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.”

61. “The rich become rich by taking, and the poor by giving.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.”

62. “Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “The reader is always right.”

63. “The reader is always right.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “By bedtime Nanny was at my side as usual, arriving with a large sweet potato, its tummy open with a spoon sticking out of the middle, tiny wisps of steam curling upwards and condensing on the handle. There is something about a sweet potato that cheers you up when you are low and it celebrates with you when you are happy. Sweet potatoes baked in their jackets have a very large comfort factor built into them.”

64. “By bedtime Nanny was at my side as usual, arriving with a large sweet potato, its tummy open with a spoon sticking out of the middle, tiny wisps of steam curling upwards and condensing on the handle. There is something about a sweet potato that cheers you up when you are low and it celebrates with you when you are happy. Sweet potatoes baked in their jackets have a very large comfort factor built into them.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Life has a habit of going on.”

65. “Life has a habit of going on.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.”

66. “Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “While being beaten by the other kids encouraged me to learn a new language, it wasn’t doing my confidence a lot of good.”

67. “While being beaten by the other kids encouraged me to learn a new language, it wasn’t doing my confidence a lot of good.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Morrie, as usual, had made his point: good conversational debate is an end to itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. p385.”

68. “Morrie, as usual, had made his point: good conversational debate is an end to itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. p385.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.”

69. “More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.”

70. “All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Racism is a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men.”

71. “Racism is a primary force of evil designed to destroy good men.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “The more you know, the more you can control your destiny.”

72. “The more you know, the more you can control your destiny.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “What evidence do you have that the black people in your country are ready to rise against the regime? A true revolution begins from the soil, from the grass roots. It is the final cry of despair from the ground up. Have you heard the cry “freedom”?”

73. “What evidence do you have that the black people in your country are ready to rise against the regime? A true revolution begins from the soil, from the grass roots. It is the final cry of despair from the ground up. Have you heard the cry “freedom”?”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.”

74. “I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.”

— Bryce Courtenay

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