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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.

Bryce Courtenay

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Bryce Courtenay
Age: 79 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Died: 2012
Died: November 22
Novelist
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Arthur Bryce Courtenay
People
Intellectual
Watches
Cleanness
Watch
Acuity
Lose
Sharpness
Loses
Gifted
Brain
Gifts
Given
Older
Hard
Worked

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