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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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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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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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
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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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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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 want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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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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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 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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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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Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
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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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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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