“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.” WayMindDiesExciting Author:Bryce Courtenay
“If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.” PeopleIfsWorldKingsBoatShade Author:Bryce Courtenay
“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.” YearsWellsCountryNaturalCreativeDirectorsAdvertisingAgencyEducateSpectacularJuniorsAdvertising Agencies Author:Bryce Courtenay
“The imagination is always the best torturer.” Imagination Book:The Power of One Source: The Power of One
“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.” PeopleEndsBornMemoriesPoorGreat DepressionTagOrphanage Author:Bryce Courtenay
“I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.” PeopleHardGivenLosesBrainWatchesIntellectualGiftedSharpness Author:Bryce Courtenay
“I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.” PleasureConnectionsNourishment Author:Crescent Dragonwagon
“There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.” HumansProcessWaterHuman BeingsGasSugarBeansDigestion Author:Crescent Dragonwagon
“The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.” WestCommunismRevoltSatellites Author:Whittaker Chambers