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Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
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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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People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.
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I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
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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 go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
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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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I put my soul into every book I write.
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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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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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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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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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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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I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
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