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All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
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I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.
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Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.
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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
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The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.
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It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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