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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
Mathematician
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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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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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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
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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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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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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 have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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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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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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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 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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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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