QUOTES by Bryce Courtenay
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"I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps"
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"It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone."
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"My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men"
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"And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven."
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"I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert."
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"... in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed."
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"In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation."
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"Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people."
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"When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit."
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"Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them"
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"Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state."
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"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."
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"How 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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"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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"It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something."
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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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"Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!"
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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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"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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"In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also."
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"Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."
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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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"First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start."
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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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"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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"Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention."
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". . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child."
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