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Quote by 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.”

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Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay was an Australian novelist known for his poignant and emotionally charged works. His novels often set in the Australian outback, delve into the complexities of human nature and the resilience of life. more

“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.”

Years Wells Country Natural Creative Directors Advertising Agency Educate Spectacular Juniors Advertising 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.”

People Ends Born Memories Poor Great Depression Tag Orphanage

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.”

People Hard Given Loses Brain Watches Intellectual Gifted Sharpness