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I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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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Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
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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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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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