Bryce Courtenay Short Quotes

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You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

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Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

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Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

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But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

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I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

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It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

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I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

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Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

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Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

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You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game.

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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.

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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 be destroyed.

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It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

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Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

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