Bryce Courtenay
Novelist
1933-08-14 – 2012-11-22
South African-born Australian novelist best known for The Power of One and other bestselling works of historical fiction. He became one of Australia's most commercially successful authors.
Books by Bryce Courtenay
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The power of one
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Tandia
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Jessica
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Quotes by Bryce Courtenay
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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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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
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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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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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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
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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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Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
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I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
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