Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Children

Giving

Love

. . . 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 man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

Flower

Men

Morning

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

Agency

Country

Years

Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

Conventions

Power Of One

Self Determination

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. 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.

Believe

Heart

Men

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

Alive

Book

Stills

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

People

Two

Wonder Love

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

Conversation

Debate

Talking

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Entertainers

Storyteller

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Believe

I Believe

Lying

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Agency

Alive

Ambition

Art

Believe

Book

Boxing

Brain

Brother

Certain

Children

Christmas

Compassion

Conventions

Conversation

Country

Debate

Determination

Disappointment

Dream

Embrace

Entertainers

Feet

Flower

Games

Giving

Hate

Heart

Humanity

I Believe

Intellectual

Love

Lying

Meat

Memories

Men

Mind

Morning

Motivational

Mouths

Natural

Past

People

Play

Power Of One

Powerful

Pride

Sandwiches

Self Confidence

Self Determination

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Quotes by Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Always listen to yourself… It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

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

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

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

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

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