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“I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.”

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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

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.”

Pleasure Connections Nourishment

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.”

Humans Process Water Human Beings Gas Sugar Beans Digestion

Author:Crescent Dragonwagon

“To hunger is to be alive and to hope.”

Alive Hunger

Author:Crescent Dragonwagon

“The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.”

West Communism Revolt Satellites

Author:Whittaker Chambers

“It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.”

Long Play Whole Facts Hands Common Effort Enemy One Day Terror Communist Senators Exaggeration Blunders Discredit Irreparable Common Enemy Anti Communist

Book:Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961

Source: Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961

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