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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?
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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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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Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
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The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
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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 put my soul into every book I write.
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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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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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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
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Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
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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 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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