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Bryce Courtenay Quote: “PS Say always to yourself, First with the head and then with the heart, that’s how a man stays ahead from the start. H. G.”

101. “PS Say always to yourself, First with the head and then with the heart, that’s how a man stays ahead from the start. H. G.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Ja! I know what we shall do. You must put your hands like so,’ he placed his hands on his hips, ‘at once we will stand on one leg and say, “No matter what has happened bad, today I’m finished from being sad. Absoloodle!”

102. “Ja! I know what we shall do. You must put your hands like so,’ he placed his hands on his hips, ‘at once we will stand on one leg and say, “No matter what has happened bad, today I’m finished from being sad. Absoloodle!”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “He had given me the power of one, one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination.”

103. “He had given me the power of one, one idea, one heart, one mind, one plan, one determination.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I was a child of Africa, a white child to be sure, but nevertheless Africa’s child. The black breasts which had suckled me, and the dark hands which had bathed and rocked me, left me with a burden of obligation to resist the white power which would be the ultimate gift from those who now trained me.”

104. “I was a child of Africa, a white child to be sure, but nevertheless Africa’s child. The black breasts which had suckled me, and the dark hands which had bathed and rocked me, left me with a burden of obligation to resist the white power which would be the ultimate gift from those who now trained me.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “In music you must first do the exercises, always first the exercises. If you do the exercises goot then you have the foundations. You cannot build a good musician on a bad foundation. I think with this boxing business it is the same. Ja, I think this is true.”

105. “In music you must first do the exercises, always first the exercises. If you do the exercises goot then you have the foundations. You cannot build a good musician on a bad foundation. I think with this boxing business it is the same. Ja, I think this is true.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “If they do not respect your punch they simply keep going until they knock you down, man. A boxer must have respect.”

106. “If they do not respect your punch they simply keep going until they knock you down, man. A boxer must have respect.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defence system and with it he gave me hope.”

107. “Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defence system and with it he gave me hope.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I had long since built the walls around my ego which only the most persistent person would ever manage to climb.”

108. “I had long since built the walls around my ego which only the most persistent person would ever manage to climb.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Yeah, sure, but we had sixty quid marked off for a profit anyway. That’s a damn good week’s work.’ ‘I know, but the whole thing lacked intellectual excitement. It didn’t depend on my wits.”

109. “Yeah, sure, but we had sixty quid marked off for a profit anyway. That’s a damn good week’s work.’ ‘I know, but the whole thing lacked intellectual excitement. It didn’t depend on my wits.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Hoppie squeezed my hand and laughed softly. ‘I reckon that was worth at least another two rounds, Peekay.’ Pausing in the dark outside the tent, he took me by the shoulders. ‘Never forget, Peekay, sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.”

110. “Hoppie squeezed my hand and laughed softly. ‘I reckon that was worth at least another two rounds, Peekay.’ Pausing in the dark outside the tent, he took me by the shoulders. ‘Never forget, Peekay, sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “You must learn to box with your feet, small baas. A good boxer is like a dancer, he is still pretty to watch even if you look only at his feet.”

111. “You must learn to box with your feet, small baas. A good boxer is like a dancer, he is still pretty to watch even if you look only at his feet.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “You see I am also Doctor of Music, it is all the same thing. I am too old and you are too young for Mister this or Professor that. You and me will not hide behind such a small importance. Just Peekay and Doc. I think this is a goot plan?”

112. “You see I am also Doctor of Music, it is all the same thing. I am too old and you are too young for Mister this or Professor that. You and me will not hide behind such a small importance. Just Peekay and Doc. I think this is a goot plan?”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.”

113. “As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “The lawyer had pointed out that it was very much in my mother’s interests to clear our family name as the prattle tongues in town might well accuse her of neglect for having allowed me to roam the hills with a German spy.”

114. “The lawyer had pointed out that it was very much in my mother’s interests to clear our family name as the prattle tongues in town might well accuse her of neglect for having allowed me to roam the hills with a German spy.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Knowing it might come but not knowing when meant that I would get an awful shock. The imagination is always the best torturer.”

115. “Knowing it might come but not knowing when meant that I would get an awful shock. The imagination is always the best torturer.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “When man is brutalized in such a place like this, he is looking for small signs. The smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.”

116. “When man is brutalized in such a place like this, he is looking for small signs. The smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Doc never took food for granted and would chew for ages before swallowing.”

117. “Doc never took food for granted and would chew for ages before swallowing.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Geel Piet taught me to anticipate the problems likely to occur in any situation and to review the answers to them long before disaster struck. His mind was a network of emergency plans. While small boys are not natural pessimists, he nevertheless taught me the value of a routine which, when practised a thousand times, becomes an automatic reaction to a crisis.”

118. “Geel Piet taught me to anticipate the problems likely to occur in any situation and to review the answers to them long before disaster struck. His mind was a network of emergency plans. While small boys are not natural pessimists, he nevertheless taught me the value of a routine which, when practised a thousand times, becomes an automatic reaction to a crisis.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “I do not come from a nation of slaves, but I have been made a slave.”

119. “I do not come from a nation of slaves, but I have been made a slave.”

— Bryce Courtenay

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

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

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Country people know the sweat that goes into an ear of corn, a pail of milk, a churn of butter, bread warm from the oven and the eggs and bacon which sizzle in the breakfast frying pan. Food is hard earned and requires the proper degree of respect.”

121. “Country people know the sweat that goes into an ear of corn, a pail of milk, a churn of butter, bread warm from the oven and the eggs and bacon which sizzle in the breakfast frying pan. Food is hard earned and requires the proper degree of respect.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “Once I had been a regular chatterbox but school had changed all that. A person of my status was not expected to talk much, and besides, listening is a good camouflage. I soon discovered that it is also an art. You learn not simply to listen to what people say. It’s what people don’t say that is important.”

122. “Once I had been a regular chatterbox but school had changed all that. A person of my status was not expected to talk much, and besides, listening is a good camouflage. I soon discovered that it is also an art. You learn not simply to listen to what people say. It’s what people don’t say that is important.”

— Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay Quote: “The more you know, the more you can control your destiny. Man is the only animal who can store knowledge outside his body. This has made him greater than the creatures around him. Everything has happened before, if you know what comes before then you know what happens now. 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.”

123. “The more you know, the more you can control your destiny. Man is the only animal who can store knowledge outside his body. This has made him greater than the creatures around him. Everything has happened before, if you know what comes before then you know what happens now. 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.”

— Bryce Courtenay

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